Reply #9: this is one of the most inspiring posts i've read on DU... [View All]

[nashville_brook]

read it yesterday at lunch. the fiance read it yesterday at work, too. we hadn't mentioned it each other, but came home with heads full of tangential ideas...got into a discussion that pondered the primacy of empathy in human civilization.

how naked is it that the GOP attacked "empathy" during the Sotomayor confirmation? and, that beck attacks "social justice"? how enslaved must one's mind be to openly criticize empathy and caring? how much koolaid does it take? it's so outside of my reality construct that i wonder if these people aren't different genetically. some switch in their DNA must have been flipped that has short-circuited their empathy gland. empathy, caring and rooting for social justice are as primal as breathing to me. i couldn't turn it off if i tried. which begs the question again -- what happened to these people? they are broken.