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It's at least urban legend that Hitler wept over cute children and fuzzy pets. Sentimentality is the opposite of empathy -- a redirection of real emotion toward other beings to a fantasy starring one's self. The ASPCA does good and necessary work, but their ads stoop to the easiest pitch: marketing to sentimentality rather than a broad worldview that connects our feelings to all beings, including humans and the living planet.

I suppose some hint of sympathy is better than none, but where there's no intellectual consistency, there's little probability that it will grow into true empathy, true identification with the other in all its variety. Still you work with what you've got.

As to your puzzlement re Christianity, I don't get it. Your were expecting some transformation after 2000 years? Christians and their Abrahamic brethren are, after all made in the image of their god. Why would they not behave just like that icon?

Bush is "the first President to admit to an impeachable offense." --Former Nixon counsel John Dean

by DaveW on Thu Jan 31st, 2008 at 11:20:25 AM EST
Sentimentality is the opposite of empathy -- a redirection of real emotion toward other beings to a fantasy starring one's self.

So well put.

I have two cats, and I'm absolutely in love with my brother's dog. He really is amazing; he's very protective of our nephew (just shy of 2) AND my parents, who are 60ish. I feel he's a part of the family, and if he wants to sleep in my old bed at home, he can.

But he's a dog.

That's why I was unnerved over the Michael Vick hoopla. Yes, he should have punished. BUT. When you have people like Sen. Byrd taking to the Senate floor to rant about him, but are silent about the human scum who tortured and almost killed Megan Williams in his own state, then something is wrong.

Presumptuous is the new uppity.

by AP on Thu Jan 31st, 2008 at 02:28:19 PM EST
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