So much energy expended on persuading people who could not be more clear that they love greed and atrocity to embrace their “better angels” they’ve proved they can’t care less about.
So little expended on persuading their targets that we’ll fight for them against those who terrorize and kill them.
So little expended on persuading their targets that we’ll fight for them against those who terrorize and kill them.
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Osita Nwanevu
I've been thinking about this a lot and might work up an essay on it eventually. I don't think empathy is a sound basis for politics substantively or rhetorically. Empathetic people left of center are a fraction of the population. And we should help people we don't like and can't understand anyway.
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