If I’m the one torturing the fascists, and that makes me feel extremely good, does that balance out in empathy at all? Can you focus your empathy on feeling good for whoever punched out Andy Ngo?
eh doesn't work like that for me. You'll never get me to agree that torture is ever good or necessary, BUT if violence does happen i'd rather be on the side of people who are using it on oppressors and not the oppressed. If someone feels really good punching a fash - it's like i feel the joy in fighting off an oppressor but not the actual act of violence itself?
psychopathy
If I’m the one torturing the fascists, and that makes me feel extremely good, does that balance out in empathy at all? Can you focus your empathy on feeling good for whoever punched out Andy Ngo?
eh doesn't work like that for me. You'll never get me to agree that torture is ever good or necessary, BUT if violence does happen i'd rather be on the side of people who are using it on oppressors and not the oppressed. If someone feels really good punching a fash - it's like i feel the joy in fighting off an oppressor but not the actual act of violence itself?