911 dispatcher ignores multiple emergency calls bc she doesn't feel like working.

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[u/jvon24]

Unfortunately you can’t teach someone empathy. I’m a firm believer that these attitudes are a product of their environment and this was learned behavior from home…

[u/Fabricati_Diem_Pvn → u/jvon24]

....If it is learned behaviour, that means you *can* teach empathy.

[u/Sugarlightgirl → u/jvon24]

Parents teach their children empathy everyday. Empathy is very teachable!

[u/firstonesecond → u/Sugarlightgirl]

I think they mean that some people are incapable of learning empathy

[u/Apprehensive_Door249 → u/firstonesecond]

That is not at all what they said though

[u/unclefire → u/firstonesecond]

Republicans are the poster children for inability to learn empathy.

[u/thereforeratio → u/firstonesecond]

Some people are incapable of learning quantum physics, doesn’t mean you can’t teach someone else was the point I believe

[u/_lavoisier_ → u/thereforeratio]

After some age, good luck with teaching empathy, let alone quantum physics lol

[u/GottaUseEmAll → u/Sugarlightgirl]

Yes, but that's their whole point, I think. Some parents don't model empathy and don't help their kids learn it, and if the vital window is missed in early childhood, it's not something that can be taught later on.

[u/Concrete_Grapes → u/Sugarlightgirl]

If you're not given the nurturing to develop emotional and reflective empathy before about 3, you just will never have it.

You can force yourself to learn cognitive empathy, but, it's fucking hard.

A HUGE number of adults have zero cognitive empathy. It forms in preteen to early 20's. You can define political alignment completely by the lack of cognitive empathy.

Psychopaths very frequently ONLY have cognitive empathy. They will never have the capacity to have the other types.

[u/AltruisticMode9353 → u/Concrete_Grapes]

>  You can define political alignment completely by the lack of cognitive empathy.

I was believing the rest of what you wrote, but I know this is not true (at least not shown empirically), which makes me question if the other stuff is true too. There is much more variation within political alignment categories than between them.

[u/Superdupernadja → u/Sugarlightgirl]

Its both genetics, and learned behaviour. There is some genetic limit to everything, and in some people they are very low in the empathy department. Ofc her parents still failed in noticing that and helping her to find workarounds.

Even if you have genetically predispositioned super low empathy, you can be a productive and helpfull member of society, as long as you are aware of your disability and willing to work on working around it.

[u/Large_Dr_Pepper → u/jvon24]

Your first sentence says you can't teach someone empathy, and your second sentence states that it's learned behavior from home. If it's learned behavior, then it's something that can be taught.

Prison should focus on correction and rehabilitation, not punishment. I'm not saying every single person is capable of rehabilitation, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Map7672 → u/jvon24]

You can’t teach it… it’s learned… what?