Al Pastor on Nostr: "In her new book, ‘Call it Evil’ the philosopher Susan Neiman argues that the ...

"In her new book, ‘Call it Evil’ the philosopher Susan Neiman argues that the ideology of self-interest is enshrined in the West as common sense realism rather than a philosophical idea. She notes that according to social psychologists,

only 2 percent of the world’s population are psychopathic, people who not only lack empathy but take pleasure in others’ pain.

Once the supremacy of self-interest is enshrined as common sense realism … moral capacities like empathy and shame become not just naïve but suspect. Sadists exist and cause no end of pain. But the most common forms of evil arise from the view that only fools believe in anything but their own advantage. (My emphasis)

Musk tells lies with the abandonment of someone inured to literacy. In a notorious Joe Rogan interview he lied about immigrants, and claimed that “empathy” had allowed immigrants (like himself?) to enter the United States.

The fundamental weakness of Western civilization, he said, is empathy