I don’t care about Gaza, Palestine, or the people there. I’m not one of those people who denies there’s a genocide — I do believe there is one. I just don’t give a fuck. I truly don’t. I don’t care if Israel bombs all of Gaza and kills kids. I don’t. I don’t give a fuck. Here are my actual thoughts: “Fuck them and fuck those kids.” I don’t give a fuck. They could drop a missile so radioactive it gives kids brain cancer, and I still wouldn’t care. I’m aware this is a hot take, and I have seen pictures of dead kids in Gaza, and I still don’t give a fuck. Here’s how I think when I see those pictures: “Fuck them.” That’s it.

But in public, on social media, etc., should I act like I care? I mean, just to make myself look good?

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      Their deleted posts do even more so. I’m 99% sure it is the same person. They were also Pixelnomad but that account got banned.

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    Well nobody can spend all their time thinking about it, that wouldn’t be healthy

    But you have gone out of your way to tell us you not only don’t care, you maliciously don’t care. I hope the person who didn’t believe you were a sociopath on your previous posts see this. You are either a sociopath or going out of your way to convince us you’re a sociopath

    If you are earnestly concerned about whether you should act like you care, I’d say just don’t talk about it at all. Probably nobody will ask.

    But you brought it up so I’m pretty sure you want us to know hiw awful you are

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    “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”

    —Hannah Arendt

    “I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

    —Captain G.M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947)

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    I think you should just be yourself, and deal with the consequences. Are you afraid of the consequences ?

    Imho, that sounds like an underdeveloped brain -as far as empathy is concerned. I know some individuals never evolve the necessary pathways until late in adulthood- for me it happened sometime around my early 20s. I say make new friends, go into the unknown. Perhaps that’ll trigger it

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    You sound kind of like a psychopath. I don’t mean that as an insult, but since it’s something that can significantly affect your life, maybe you should talk to a doctor or something about your feelings.

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    At least you realise that it would make you look good. That’s something.

    More importantly, that age-old question: what answer that you haven’t had before did you expect? Also, how often are you going to repost this one, I wonder?

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    You probably need a psych consult. A normal functioning human should understand and feel empathy with other human beings. You lacking that, especially the way you’re describing it, could be a sign of something else at play you should be aware of, especially if you ever plan on having normal relationships with other people and possibly children.

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    There is a big difference between “i don’t care” and “fuck them”. I mean I don’t really have mental energy and passion to really care for their conflict (for many reasons) but my opinion is close to: it’s horrible and isr*el is fucked up hellhole, not “fuck the palestinians”. You shouldn’t act like you care unless you care but you can at least filter it a bit or don’t participate in conversations that involve that conflict.

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    That’s a common reaction to things too difficult to rationalize otherwise: apathy.

    If you want to feign sympathy because you think it’ll make you look good, go for it.

    Dale Carnegie might encourage you to accept the worst possible outcome -really accept it- then try to improve upon it. And keep trying to improve upon it.

    This goes hand in hand with ACT - acceptance and commitment therapy - which is a common method used to help people deal with grief and getting unstuck (overcoming anxiety, fears, etc.), and acceptance is the critical first step. Once you really accept things, that gives you the foundation for commitments to improve the situation.

    And they don’t necessarily have to be related. You could accept that your partner has dumped you and your commitment might be moving onward with your life by taking/investing time for yourself.

    Or you could accept that a war on the other side of the world is not it really influenced much (or at all) by your decisions so you instead you might go for a bicycle ride or go fishing. Something you would rather do than interact with content that you ‘don’t give a fuck about.’

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    The internet is a great place for children to express wild views and try out extreme politics in order to test boundaries and discover themselves. I support this acting-out; it’s healthy. You may grow up to be an moderately adjusted person.