Eunice and Empathy

Agent Eunice comprehended enough of the importance of empathy in interpersonal success, but abrupty threw the weight at presumably poor government for the lack of empathy amongst local people, rather than taking personal accountability, because after all she was part of the same society in which she unceremoniously decried its apathy and unknowingly as well hers.

Hey Eunice, you raised another fantastic point!!!

Any society in this world cannot have systems that only promote empathy, because remember about the importance of the master virtue called Justice or Moderation? I've preached that how many crazy times already!!!

Most societies/countries in this world have a COMBINATION of systems that promote empathy as well as rational self-interest!!!! Society is both empathetic and apathetic, by virtue of Justice and Moderation!! Similarly, any good government or political entity must be a combination of conservative and liberal, failing which we end up finding countries like Iran and North Korea and Burma!!! There is no Justice in these triplet because there is NO MODERATION OF GOVERNMENT OR POLITICAL AGENCY!!! They are full-on on egotistical self-interest or they must have mistakenly think they are having the advantage for the people by their dictatorship; I rather like to think it is the latter!!! And they need to come out of this illusion or delusion!!! If it is clearly the former, then these respective governments are truly callous; either sadistic or masochistic!!!

Before I go out of point, Eunice, the key point I'm saying here is that you cannot depend on the government for everything because a government, though for the people, cannot possibly align with every particular request sane or insane for they would become insane themselves. They surely can promote systems with empathy but only to an extent or balance with other systems promoting some other ideals like selfishness or individualism or whatever it is!!!! In other words there is a limit to the amount of effort to promote a certain ethic and the rest is up to us to further cultivate without further explicit injunctions and declarations from government. In short, everything boils down to the human agents and the circumstances surrounding whether we will be taught cetain ethics and virtues or not, and how much they are emphasized over other ones. Therefore, the degree, nature, intensity, frequency, sincerity of our empathy are largely a matter of the luck of circumstances and environment which include anybody we interact with in the course of our life that may instruct and embolden our empathy.

There is nothing to change that Eunice, you must accept that. Singapore can only do so much to introduce empathy and LOVE for our neighbours or strangers, if it has even already done enough!!! The only way Eunice for you to change the level of empathy, is to start your own private organization called Empathy and promote activities and examples that may support Empathy; you dont go through the government forever, because the government needs to be justified and balanced to ensure its own survival in a world sold on self-interest and rationalism!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ask not what the government can do for you, Eunice; rather ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR THEM!!!!!!! Because simply by default, THE GOVERNMENT HAS ALREADY DONE FOR YOU ALOT!!!!!!!!!! Also obviously you dont ask what the government can do for you, BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS SUPPOSE TO DO THAT FOR YOU, AND HOW YOU KNOW THE GOVERNMENT HAS DONE ENOUGH OF THAT SUCH AS EMPATHY FOR YOU IS THAT YOU HAVE LIVE THIS LONG AND THIS FRUITFUL!!!!!!! AREN'T YOU ALIVE EUNICE, AND EVERYBODY HERE?????!!!???!??

Cheers