Eunice and Empathy (3)

Agent Eunice surprisingly ditched the empathy or found it too cumbersome to bear; a shocking and unimpressive move.

O Eunice, you raised a fantastic point, this time for rebuke!!!! Haha!!!

Now you are really blowing hot and cold Eunice; for I thought I just read a post you made concerning the considerability of empathy!!! Or maybe I saw an illusion!!! Haha!!

Simply because right here, you are dodging the bullet by not wanting to face the challenge of complicated conflict resolution!!!! You should have told Jake the same thing you wrote in your empathy post, if for nothing else but consistency's sake!!!!

How do you do this empathy Jake and Eunice? How do you find a modus viviendi between the Christians and Muslims, femininism and masculinity, conservatives and liberals, consequentialists and deontologists, cultural Tibetans and Aboriginees, man and woman????

Simple, Jake and Eunice. If you both are unreligious, then the only way is to extend your moral imagination!!!!!!!!!!!! Which is to empathize in short!!!!!!!!! This is called the Evolution of God in Richard Wright's national best-seller, but it has nothing to do with Christianity because Richard wrote from a buddhist's perspective. Here God is not the superlative noun; it is more adjectival.

But to extend your moral imagination was likened to bringing more God (as in co-existence and less hostility) into interactions between disparate human groups. He said that as human beings grew and evolved, and as Brad said above, we survived and adapted by being more capable of imagining the state and function of others' being or culture, as understanding that they have similar survival and posterity goals as themselves, and that they understood that all human beings were fundamentally like themselves and trying to live to some well-defined scheme. When they knew this and everytime they discovered new asymmetry with newer and different groups of people, God changed for the better and they gained newer perspectives and solutions to incorporate the views, agencies, rules of others. That is to say these people gained more respect and understanding over the time and have their God evolve to make sure they ensure the survival of themselves by ensuring likewise others' through empathy and correlation with others. These people understood that posterity was dependant on A NON ZERO-SUM GAME between human groups, and that they needn't get a better resource of future for themselves by thinking in terms of themselves at the expense of others or vice versa, and that their survival was symbiotically defined with that of others!!!! That was how their moral intelligence or God came to be and improve, that is, empathy!!!!!!!!!!!! Richard Wright talks about the conflict between Muslims and Christians and how moral imagination or empathy made tensions between them more manageable and unproliferated. He also talks about in general various other examples of other disparate groups of people and gave examples to his thesis on the evolution of God how there was some form of conflict resolution or at least management in them.

Cheers