In Reply to: The right's disdain for FEMA is completely on brand posted by blindness on October 21, 2026 at 07:53:03
Musk says empathy is "suicidal". FEMA is an organization which relies, fundamentally, on empathy. How would I want our government to act if a disaster affected me or my community?
Gustave Mark Gilbert, the Chief Psychologist at the Nuremburg Trials later wrote about his interactions with the perpetrators of the most notorious war criminals and crimes against humanity:
“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.”