Monday, August 25, 2014

Idiots for empathy and now idiots against (but not really). [comments stripped, still at archive.org]
My response to the first is my response to the second.

A comment by Tom Farsides
...this is an appalling essay. Bloom knows that “empathy” is a vague term and that many uses of it refer to processes and experiences that are highly valuable in multiple ways. By using the term imprecisely and inconsistently – but contentiously - he is fuelling an academic non-debate of the worst sort, where people who have little obvious real disagreement talk past each other and confusion reigns to no good effect.

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