Comment by gruez

>Like l said, I doubt he experientially knows what he’s talking about.

What does that even mean? You can't defund USAID without yourself first going on a trip to Africa to dig a well?

>Or he means what he says and expresses the desire to paint empathy in a bad light and by that continue to dehumanize the other to justify violence.

How did you go from "so much empathy that you actually suicide yourself" to "dehumanize the other to justify violence"? Presumably he's talking about refugees and foreign countries, but there's a pretty wide gulf between putting the interests of your own polity ahead of others, and "dehumanize the other to justify violence".

>Interesting that you talk about “thoughts and prayers“. I am talking about feelings, the foundation of empathy.

I doubt Musk is upset all the people tweeting prayer emojis whenever a natural disaster hits a foreign country, when he's talking about "we've got civilizational suicidal empathy going on".