Literally NOBODY has empathy anymore. Old ass politicians will bring up prices without even for a mere SECOND putting themselves in the shoes of those who might be affected by that, and little kids are commenting shit like "womp womp" on videos of people mourning the deaths of their loved ones or something. WAY more often than not, mentally ill people are seen as "freaks" that "don't belong" in society rather than actual people who are just struggling and need help. (Don't even try to refute this. For thousands of years before we even knew anything about emotions and psychology we thought mentally ill people were "possessed by demons" or something. Nowadays even though we know a lot more we're somehow only like five steps ahead from that) Not to mention that since people will commonly mock and ridicule others for being upset, that means that they're dehumanizing someone else for feeling emotions, which will undeniably lead to that person's brain learning that showing emotions is "bad", which will then cause them to bottle them all up which will then cause them to have a huge meltdown when they can't hold them all in anymore. More often than not, the person who had the meltdown is then further demonized as if said meltdown is their fault. At this point you can't feel any sort of emotions, since being happy is seen as "corny". Even when someone is upset, or someone like one of their parents or their siblings or aunt or uncle or BFF literally f**king DIES, the MOST they will get is a half assed "omgomg im so so so sorry u dont deserve that :(" 99% of the time, as if that fixes anything. Most people, even if they don't realize it, literally can NOT feel empathy. You could remove the anterior insular cortex from every human and I doubt there would be ANY difference whatsoever. Most of the time if you're struggling, so deeply so that whatever is hurting you is metaphorically a gaping wound that's gushing blood, then someone will just put a bandaid on it in a mocking way and then laugh at you. Best case is they act like they're trying to help. What sickens me the most is that the most traumatizing shit ever could happen to someone, like a mother being forced to watch her children be tortured to death and then cooked and then force fed them, and at least ONE person would make an insensitive joke about it. I don't get why the hell nobody can feel empathy anymore or why everyone thinks being an insensitive f**king worthless miserable piece of shit is funny or okay.
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