Where in your book does it say that having no empathy means being, err, "bad", whatever that means? I specifically used the word "interesting", to make absolutely sure no one would take it as a moral judgement. I suppose I'll add a line such as
WARNING: THIS IS NOT A MORAL JUDGEMENT
next time, just in case.
Well, I really misunderstood this part. i'm sorry. I just met too many people who just bash on flamers, like they were some kind of subhuman trash, so my reading was kinda biased here, which is no excuse, but whatever.
Because demanding some stranger, through a computer screen, to kill themself is, to me, a proof of extreme stupidity,
I was already discussing it with somebody, but one point you should realize "kys" is not "demanding some stranger, through a computer screen, to kill themselves". It's more likely a fck off, or fck you in the current times and community. Or just look at "kms", for example I've written "kms" when I fcked up a play, flashed accidentally etc.. I've never meant to kill myself because of these reasons. Would you be worried about my life if I write "kms" after I blatantly fail to flash over a wall in game?
for forsaking tens of thousands of years of refining social behaviours into useful policies, acting like one's actions have no consequences and doing things based on concepts that, if widespread and expanded upon, would make for a society that would be difficult to live in. Or blatant ignorance, which can be cured if the person wants it to be, but could be worthy of a few harsh words, especially when said ignorance is harmful to others.
But the thing is, some actions have no or negligible consequences. If I say "kys" to a random stranger online in a video game, never meeting him again, has no consequence, or at least for sane people. Of course, if we would use it for every action, the current community would collapse, and that is desired by nobody (hopefully).
Also, most people are imbeciles in a number of ways. As an example, I'm stupid enough that I'm spending some time to explain my thoughts to a stranger over the Internet: you don't know me, you probably won't even remember this chat tomorrow, and whatever I write likely won't stick in your brain long enough to change any of your behaviours (implied: durably, and for the better).
Whatever you say, calling someone imbecile is a toxic behaviour according to the game and Boards. You can not justify saying imbecile, by calling imbecile/stupid yourself.
It still goes to show that stupidity sometimes comes back to bite, which can be comforting to some.
So you are empathic with these people, but you link a site, where the whole point is to make fun of people (even the name Darwin award makes fun of them). What you basically say: "I know, I know, they said "kys" to you, but look at these idiots dying! Do you feel better yet?" This just shows you have NO EMPATHY for the people who died this way.
