It doesn't matter who agrees or disagrees with me on the issues, and that is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the flip comments made about the struggles that people go through every day, the lack of acknowledgement that there are even issues in many cases. The characterization that certain groups of people are just lazy, or unprepared, or even incapable of succeeding. That all they want is a government handout, suggesting that they don't have any real dignity or dreams to pull themselves out of poverty, and even if they do it is just a lack of work ethic willingness to take advantage of the generosity that already exists in this nation. They are thugs who get what they deserve. Those types of comments look like a lack of empathy and they are peppered throughout the threads I pointed to. We can talk about solutions to problems that clearly exist, but to just shrug these important issues off looks an aweful lot like a lack of empathy to me. In this case, we have people speaking as if all of these people got what they deserved, despite compelling evidence that some of them were not terrorists and received the same brutal treatment as the actual terrorists because they surely must have been guilty of something. That looks like a lack of empathy. Forget the inhumanity of torturing other human beings. Just look at the comments about the innocents. I was not speaking about you personally in my post, so it is sort of weird that you responed by telling me how much empathy you have toward humans. I'm not suggesting that you don't. I'm saying that some of the posts in the threads I mentioned leave me with the impression that some posters lack empathy.
