I find it amusing that some of us imagine that WARNING people about potential rioting is characterized as THREATENING to riot.
Once again we see that some people fail to understand that EMPATHY is not SYMPATHY.
I become increasingly convinced that this inability to understand empathy suggest that those who cannot understand the concept cannot understand it because they are incapable of doing it.
Bloomberg can imagine (read empathize) the plight of people other than himself.
By empathizing their plight he intuits how they feel, and also what they might do.
He does not have to SYMPATHIZE with them to do that.
In fact, Bloomberg can hate these people and STILL empathize about them.
one doesn't have to even be empathetic to look at history and see what has happened previously and what occurrs when certain conditions exist. one only has to be smart enough to learn from history.
I see your point..sort of.
It takes EMPATHIC INTELIGENCE to understand WHAT CONDITONS exist in the MINDS of other people, Jill.
One can know, for example, that there is income inequity and still not understand what or WHY that leads to unstable societies.
Why do you think that so many here simply cannot understand that income inquity is leading us down the shitter?
These empathically challenged folks KNOW the inequity exists, but they cannot fathom what it does to OTHER people.
For example, they are apparently incapable of understanding that the losers of the capitalist game are likely to fight back, and to play by a whole new set of rules, rather than shuffling off to die quietly.
That shows a remarkable lack of empathic sense, don't you think?
A lack of empthic intelligence is the lack of the ability to imagine being anybody but yourself.
It's the inability to imagine being in any other state of being other than the one you personally are in.
We see examples of this kind of intellectual retardation from the rabid rightist TROLLS who post here daily.
Empathy is, incidently, one of the seven known forms of intelligence...it is the interpersonal intelligence.
One can be a math or language genius and still be intellectually retarded in terms of interpersonal intelligence.
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