How is kindness a bad thing? I thought that was universally agreed to be a good message to have in a piece of media. I guess the excuse is they don’t want media to have messages at all but like, how would you even have a movie where the hero has no values that they stand for?

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      2 months ago

      I am absolutely with you.

      Also people should learn the difference between empathy and sympathy, the latter not as fatiguing and difficult to develop and often more useful.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      Empathy can be developed over time by MOST people.

      Also, performative empathy can be developed.

      But then ALSO, anti empathy seems to be developing in society? Which is wild.