Why does our modern society have such a critical lack of empathy? What's turning everyone into a sociopath?

Why does our modern society have such a critical lack of empathy? What's turning everyone into a sociopath?

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You must have a very limited understanding of human history. The world is a brutal place and we are the most brutal creatures living in it.

Desensitization

The world will always be brutal, Unless we get world piece

>empathy
go back to r*ddit

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We tolerate "safe spaces" on colleges where assholes can go because hearing the truth would hurt them.
100 years ago, people were dying of starvation in the streets and gangs of communist were going about murdering people in Spain and Germany.

It's secondary sociopathy. It's an exploit of the fight of flight mechanism which occurs when sociopaths have great influence over your daily life.

We have sociopaths in charge across the board. So everyone is become a sociopath to defend themselves.

Let me know when you can get 7 billion people to lock step into line around world peace.

Yep we need world piece. New chocolate bar or what?

1) There's too many people in the world to be able to care for everyone
2) the internet has shown us how fucked up humanity can be
3) importing 3rd world makes you 3rd world

Are you daft?
The problem with today is too much goddamn empathy.
It's being shoved in our faces until: happens.
Everywhere you look, it's just dying africans, and poor cancer patients.

Couple this with the complete lack of emotional self-control you see today, and you get what's happening.

Also, nothing is taken seriously anymore. Everything is just jokes and roasts and happy feelies.

There's nobody to talk to about the deeper shit in life. No importance given to anything.

Apathy.

Of course humans are the most brutal creatures living on it. How does one species is expect to rise and become the apex predator on a planet? with empathy?

money

Other way around
Nowadays everyone is concerned and feeling everyone else's passing fart of emotions to a point where people have an emotional high kick-in when they gently touch someone else's superficial emotion or thought

My ex girlfriend had tiddies with a small "slit" thing across her nipples when they weren't hard
I hated her nipples but loved her tits

Jewish influence.

Genital mutilation and other very early childhood trauma causes brain damage and destroys areas of the brain responsible for the development of empathy and extroverted social behavior.
Jews figured this out when they were still shamans in tribes as it made better sociopaths to control

So it's just prey mimicking the predator as self defense

I dunno man have you seen what bugs do to each other?

information overload

social media, lack of social cohesion due to dwindling numbers of homogenous societies

also this

well for one, pornographic images displayed on a daily basis lime your pic

Multiculturalism

:)

Social media breeds self-hating narcissists

THERE IS TOO MUCH EMPATHY, YOU FUCKING COMMIE FAGGOT

Jews and the subhumans they successfully influence.

Ding ding ding

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It's the exact opposite and has been ever since women got the vote. The reason we're currently seeing millions of third worlders coming to Europe is because muh empathy prevents us from closing the borders. WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE SYRIAN CHILDREN!

Lack of God and Christian morals.

People go on the internet and realize that everyone is a piece of shit

How brutal can your life be if you have the fortune to be born into a first world country? People are literally dying because they eat themselves into obesity, but we're still ruled by primitive "every man for himself" instincts

there's not a lack of empathy, there's a lack of critical thinking and self-honesty. It's nothing new.

God I love Noodle's aging arc. Big puffy nipples too, whoever drew this has great taste.

What's that about empathy? Depends what you call empathy, look up how people have treated executions in the past for example and you'll see plenty of evidence that empathy has been limited in the past. Humans generally reserve empathy for people closely related to them, or who evoke those close relationships. Of interest is how this is being exploited quite cleverly to make us more empathetic to a wider swathe of our society.

Actually no. The virtue signalling the left does is balanced out by their hate of specific social groups and ways of life. Also, they are more harsh on people who fail at their eyes.
The left LOVES to judge in every single way possible, until they have to face their own failures.

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Atomization, desensitization, harmful chemicals in the water/food/consumable supply, and of course, the socio-political environment.

I don't want or need to have empathy for niggers, kikes, gooks and goat fuckers. Their children can all be hit by a train for all I care. If given the chance they surely would wish worse upon me.

Just get the One Piece and become the pirate king.

Atomization and social alienation brought on by the chaos and low trust of multiculturalism combined with the paranoia and self-isolationism offered by modern technology.

You described conservatives.

Urabnization is a MAJOR factor. People are less connected with each other.

I don't think there's any correlation between it and urbanization. The lack of connections between people isn't because of being around too many people it's because they don't have any meaningful interactions with those people. They're absorbed in social media or work or escapism and they feel no connection to the people around them. This is particularly true for multicultural places.

A society/culture that promotes immediate gratification as the highest virtue. People live for what they want in the given moment and they don't care who they throw under the bus (least of all themselves) or how detached from reality they become in the process.

The one thing most “lucky” people in 1st world countries lack anymore(unlike almost everywhere else) is a genuine feeling of a coherent, co-ethnic community and belonging, thanks to mass immigration and PC multiculturalism. This does great harm to people’s ability to empathize with strangers.

Urbanization permits that however. It's very different from life in a smaller town where everybody else knows who you are whether you're in on it yourself or not.

Diversity

>What's turning everyone into a sociopath?
nihilism, iconoclasm, the destruction of trust within the community, lack of social cohesion, hopelessness, antagonistization, enthic and sexual based masochism, ect.

The future seems bleaker than its ever been

Over-saturation of information.

>How does one species is expect to rise and become the apex predator on a planet? with empathy?
You can count the amount of animals that have a sense of empathy with one hand. Earth's current most dominant lifeform is the only one that demonstrates that trait.

They’re surrounded by people who don’t even share their general social goals or their same language inside their homes and who’s parents were born on the other side of the world.

You can try, but It’s really asking a lot to expect vastly different people to suddenly all hold hands and happily work towards each other’s social interests.

>everyone is concerned
They really aren't. Even the ones that pretend to be concerned really only do it to keep themselves off the radar.

I have witnessed brutality first hand feel lucky you have not. Things are pretty comfy now but human history show us that long lasting periods of peace are not the norm. Empires don't last forever and if you don't keep those "primitive" instincts your genetic line will most likely be a dead end.

It's the Mouse Utopia Experiment.
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>a huemokey hating on his ancestors
Americans either don't give a shit or we despise your kind, just like the rest of latin america.
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>I don't think there's any correlation between it and urbanization.
Examine the society circa Great Depression, specifically big cities like Chicago. You can see urbanization taking its toll back then already.

NOODLE NUDLE

Yet these retarded emotions and "gut feelings" is what has fucked over civilization countless times.

Oh, I used to have empathy, but certain groups of people exploited it to push their interest at my expense. So I got rid of that shit, upgraded to schadenfreude.

War and murder are the way of the human being.
Always has been, always will be. It's long overdue time for a war. So war we will have soon.
It will be a good thing, soy bois balls will drop and feminazis will go back to the kitchen and start acting right.

Emotions are extremely human and ultimately good (pride for yourself and your motherland, love), cuckmotions (pride for others, misplaced love) are errors of nature.

Lol.

The pretension of ferocity by modern men in the first world is so absurd. It's like cinnamon bun men living in the cities who own guns, drive trucks on the freeway and feel like they're rough pioneers. Then in the smaller areas you have people dying from pain killers in poverty because they can't find work.

And these are often the most spiteful people who act like they hate everyone else as though it's a virtue, but they're more likely just upset that their life is stagnant, they don't have anything to justify the feeling that they are a warrior guarding their land, or that they are self-sufficient.

World Peace was called racist and antisemetic then they canceled it.

Your beliefs, faggot

Sure they can be good, I'm not saying emotions are inherently bad - all I'm saying is emotions are unpredictable and dangerous.

It's esentially a double edged sword and has always been it, I can't help but imagine the human race without emotions but still with the same intelligence would be a much better organism.
Theres too much self-loathing and rationalizing with emotions.

>I have experienced brutality first hand feel lucky you have not.
I lived in chicago for a decade, it's all too real.

Well in the hypercapitalistic society of today in certain environments people use maximum exploitation even though it harms them in mid or the long term.

*witnessed
I have experienced it, far worse than witnessing it.

Space Elevator! Help us!

Empathy is what got you into this mess. You cause African populations to explode by handing them free shit and then complain when they show up at your doorstep looking for more.

I would like to see your statisitcs about shrinking empathy levels.

This image reminds me of Gerph18s Skarpne

Sigh.. fuck off
Everything is viewed though a lens of feminized empathy now.

I must now fap

Na we must strengthen our efforts in raising empathy so we can weaponize it and play goyim hoarding with our fancy datamining fueled tech.

>I can't help but imagine the human race without emotions but still with the same intelligence would be a much better organism.
It would be infinitely more better and infinitely more boring. We wouldn't have this conversation since our opinions would be the same, there wouldn't be music (well, except maybe some specifically enginereed collection of sounds that makes people more productive). Hell, even the bad emotions are good, some great literature was born due to adversity, just look at the Russian classical writers. Without chaos there's no reason to struggle for order - utterly pointless existence.

a person doesnt have enough empahy inside them for the whole world. trying to is the problem. people should care about their family, friends first and second about those that surround them. the general population comes third. broad feel good causes like communism and social justice are the problem. you are unlikely to help anyone and since its for an extremly broad group of people you receive no feedback. maybe people dont want you to redistribute wealth. at the same time it gives a false sense of moral superiority over those that disagree with you. at the same time you dismiss the notion of caring about those close to you first as discrimination. in the end many poeple follow hollow feel good causes, that dont help anyone while at the same time hating those that disagree and ignore family.

>Why does our modern society have such a critical lack of empathy? What's turning everyone into a sociopath?
Multiculturalism.

society and Sup Forums arent synonymous op

Society tells people that they themselves are the only thing that matters. Rights are given to people but at the same time their duties are taken from them. God is not our father and we are not brothers and sisters.

It is that artificially created empathy/emotions bullshit that gets inserted in every fucking discussion, even online. The online and offlinesphere are two vastly different environments but the fucking do gooder retards do not understand that. In fact all that datamining shit only works better if people are emotional and empathic in the online sphere, also dumbing them down helps a great deal. The goyim cannot be too smart neither too dumb.

Yeah, it would be boring - to US because we have emotions.
We wouldn't neccesarily hold the same opinions just because we wouldn't have emotions.

Looking at it from a current human perspective it seems bland, grey and boring - I don't really think we can even try to imagine what the human race without emotion and sporadic bursts of feelings would be like.

Chaos would still be all around is even if us humans where emotionally stripped.
It wouldn't make us perfect, it might stop riots and clashes of ideologies to a certain degree - but thinking this would make for a pointless existence is not well thought through.

Chaos exists in an infinite amount of shapes and sizes, in and outside of our planet.

Adding to that, an emotionless human race wouldnt have to worry so much about politics, extremism et cetera and could focus much more (effectively) on the bigger picture - space travel, colonization, technology, et cetera.

We would be motivated almost purely by knowledge and advancements.

>What's turning everyone into a sociopath?
atheists

If you wouldnt have any emotions those in charge would treat you like fucking cattle because they wouldnt have to fear an irrational response.

Lack of social cohesion because of a lack of shared anything. You can pick anything to rally around and bring people who are otherwise different under it. This has been race, religion, creed, state, you name it, but we have tirelessly worked to destroy all of these things because they are by nature exclusionary, because duh.

Yeah right, when the idiots in charge decide to flood your country with forgein invaders because of the ignorance of said consequences or if they slowly but surely take away all your rights and wealth then thinking about space travel seems fucking brilliant. Doesnt even make sense from wanting to have space travel, if you want space travel you need a certain environment and that environment is achieved by smart politics.

Individualism.

True, but it's a consequence of multiculturalism

>Why does our modern society have such a critical lack of empathy? What's turning everyone into a sociopath?

Oh, no reason.

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Indeed. And to complete my first post: individualism AND materialism.

Not neccesarily, you are assuming that an emotionless human would be motivated purely by personal gain. And it's just that, an assumption.

What the fuck are you talking about?

The whole point has been imagining an alternate timeline where humans never had emotions - not; "imagine if all humans right now just stopped feeling"

Shitty parenting. Most people in this thread had a terrible family and crap parents.

>We wouldn't neccesarily hold the same opinions just because we wouldn't have emotions.
There would not be real opinions anyway - all debates would be sterelized and their only goal would be to decide what is effectve.

>Chaos would still be all around is even if us humans where emotionally stripped.
Sure, but that chaos would not affect you in any way. Your biological parent just dies because of a random lightning strike? Whatever, you don't even have emotions to process that. Oh yeah, notice how I said biological parent? You wouldn't even have an incentive to call them moms or dads.

>bigger picture - space travel, colonization, technology, et cetera
You would think so but it's an extremely idealistic view. Humans might just consider that not breeding and living in a somewhat primitive society is more effective and space colonization would be just a backup measure.

>tfw media is radicalizing people left and right
Blame CNN when the day of the rope comes.

This is more complicated than you think. People that lose emotional control due to brain damage become stuck doing lots of simple shit, like picking out clothes in the morning. Whim is how you make arbitrary decisions, and whim is based in your emotions.

If you think people are stupid insects, you're part of the problem.

Empathy is a biological tool for those you have a genetic investment or interest in
We live in oversized segregated communities, therefore we are only surrounded by non related individuals who provide no benefit to us existing. They are only competition for resources