The great Dick Cheney empathy test

[babylonsister]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/07/16/notes071610.DTL


The great Dick Cheney empathy test

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
SFGate July 16, 2010


The Great Dick Cheney Empathy Test (GDCET) is not for the faint of spirit. It requires tremendous fortitude, a deeply benevolent worldview, much unchecked screaming, and copious amounts of whisky. Also, reading. Do you have what it takes?

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So it begins.

The first knee-jerk response to the Great Dick Cheney Empathy Test (GDCET) is, of course, the easiest, and the most obvious, the most available to your giddy puppydog consciousness, and my guess is it shot through you like a fast and wonderful lightning bolt of OH MY SWEET JESUS YES the instant you read the story above.

That response was, shall we say, not very subtle. It was, I'm guessing, a not-so-secret howl to the universe that the sooner Dick exits this earthly plane, the healthier, lighter and happier we will all be, planetwide. Dark shadows will lift, flowers will bloom more brightly, 10 million female uteri can finally unclench, and so on.

But then, perhaps you sigh, ponder, probe a bit more deeply. Is that how you really wish to be? What of those noble traits we all strive for: compassion, benevolence, forgiveness, a wan but merciful smile in the face of thine enemy's condemnatory sneer? Is wishing a scaldingly painful death on one of the worst and most shameful characters in American history really the right way to treat your fellow man? Any fellow man? Of course not. Well, maybe. No, no, definitely not.

After all, if you wish such a thing, what does that say? About you? About us? About this paragraph? Would we not all be wallowing on the same filthy level? Is it not similar to the death penalty argument so beloved by liberals, that no matter how vile the criminal, to wish death upon any human makes us just as base and ugly as those we deem to be evil? This is no way for an enlightened consciousness to evolve.

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You might be like me. See, I try to wish no violence or death, illness or pain on my fellow man. I do not always succeed, but still I strive, every single day, with every breath, even if I can't always forgive or be as uniformly compassionate as I'd like, then at least to proffer kindness, to see the larger picture and above all, to refuse to let the poison enter my heart.

However, I'm quite sure I would not be the slightest bit displeased to learn that the laws of brutal karmic repayment have come into full, painstaking, searing effect on our boy Dick. No, I wouldn't mind that in the least. After all, it's the empathetic thing to do.

[Meeker Morgan]

1. I find myself not giving a shit either way. n/t

[thelordofhell]

2. Fuck him

Pardon my French

[Xipe Totec]

3. I want him to live a long life

I want him to live long enough to wear diapers.

I want him to live long enough to be spoon fed mush.

I want him to live long enough to forget who he is.

I want him chained to a machine for every breath he takes.

Live long and fester, Dick.

[babylonsister]

4. Hahaha! "Live long and fester". I like it!

:thumbsup:

[gateley]

14. I don't want him to forget who he is. I want him to be mentally aware

until the day he dies so he can feel the humiliation of being fed and diapered.

[Political_Junkie]

5. That is freakin awesome!

:rofl:
and another one for Xipe's "live long and fester"
:rofl:

[spartan61]

6. Is Cheney even aware how much he is

despised? Even if he does, I'm sure he doesn't give a flying F***!!

[uberllama42]

7. I actually felt sorry for him when I read "intensive care"

I was surprised.

[Meldread]

12. That's because you're a true progressive.

If I'm entirely honest, when it comes to Dick Cheney I feel nothing. I'm emotionally cold and dead as to whether or not Dick Cheney lives or dies. He's a horrible human being, who has supported things that I regard as evil - and I don't use that word lightly. I used to hate him, but hatred requires energy that I'm no longer willing to expend.

However, at the same time I'm very much aware of what separates the right from the left, the biggest difference between Dick Cheney and myself: compassion and sympathy. So when this story comes up, I may feel nothing toward Dick Cheney, but I try to think about those around him. Such as young grandchildren who just view Dick as grandpa. These are people who are innocent, who would suffer should he die, and that is where I focus my compassion. That's how I manage to feel sympathy toward Dick and his situation - not for his sake - but for the sake of the innocent people around him.

I roll my eyes at those who are already gleefully dancing on his grave. I work hard to be a better person, not to give into lesser barbaric emotions, because when you're fighting against monsters, you have to be careful that you don't become one yourself. That's what a lot of people are becoming - the very thing that they despised.

[opihimoimoi]

8. I wish to use my EMPATHY PASS CARD AND FART IN HIS GENERAL DIRECTION

He is directly resposible for much Misery and needless deaths I am stunned he is not indicted...

He has made millions miserable and destitute...

Many died

He is to be villified with NO MERCY

He is a FOUL EVIL MAN.....

However, I stop at advocating pain and suffering......

BTW, The Saint at the Pearly Gate sez

NO HEART

NO 72 VIRGINS

[niyad]

10. interesting that one of his victims was on tv tonight--valerie plame.

[Mnemosyne]

9. Glad to be rec. #5.

"laws of brutal karmic repayment" Karma is.

All I pray is he gets what he has earned, whatever it may be, personally feel it can't be a good time for the Dick.

[Demeter]

11. The Compassion Levels or Index or Whatever Measure

will increase a thousandfold---

when Cheney goes to his reward in the Hague.

Otherwise, when the devil gets his due, DC will get a level 8 earthquake. Like a horror/sci-fi B movie.

[rhett o rick]

13. Dickhead Cheney sold his soul to the devil. Now it's time for payback. nt

[gateley]

15. Great piece -- thanks! nt

[Ross K]

16. ...

:rofl:

[NICO9000]

17. Empathy for that POS? NEVER!

The sooner he croaks, the better. Like millions of others, I would prefer his last days be spent in a prison cell, but that will never, ever happen even if he lived to be 100. So if he were to exit this mortal coil soon, that would be just hunky dory with me. I'm a very empathetic person, but there's absolutely no reason to have any for a sociopath like the Dick.

I always find it interesting on DU when one of these pricks dies or is close to death (e.g., Limbaugh's hospital stay in Hawaii a few months ago), you always have posters who think it's terrible to gloat at times like that. I generally agree except when the deceased or soon-to-be deceased is such a heinous piece of shit that the world would be greatly improved by their demise. Personally, if all the RW talkers dropped dead tomorrow, I would raise a glass and dance a fucking jig. They contribute nothing but pure hate and stupidity to their frightened, moronic, and racists listeners and have coarsened the national dialogue while raking in obscene amounts of money to spew their propaganda. Good riddance to the lot of 'em.

Maybe I'm just a bad person for feeling like this, but to quote Seymour Skinner, "Prove me wrong, kids, prove me wrong!"

:puke:

[WVRICK13]

18. I Promise

to feel as much empathy for Cheney as he feels for those less fortunate than him.

[blublu]

19. I was more preoccupied..

....by having had to put a small grass-hopper, that my cat caught and brought in, out of its misery than I will ever be about Cheney. I will shed no tears.