19 Uncomfortable Truths About Human Nature - Gurwinder Bhogal - #1073

It's been too long, man. You write these awesome things on the internet. We this is the eighth time we've done this now. For the people that haven't seen you before, you come up with some of my favorite aphorisms and insights and stuff. And we just do the we're kind of like the bonny blue of interesting insights about the internet.

We're just taking whatever we get. It's high velocity stuff. Uh the first one that I want to get into The oxytocin paradox, this is one of yours. Oxytocin, the love hormone, can also make people spiteful.

Cruelty is not simply the opposite of compassion, it's often adjacent to it. For instance, the platform most dominated by social justice activists, Blue Sky, is also the one with the highest support for assassinations. Beware of those quick to show empathy, for they are often just as quick to show barbarity. Yeah, so this is a finding that I sort of came across quite recently, but it confirms something that I've long known, which is that people who outwardly express a lot of empathy tend to also be equally capable of cruelty to that same extent. Um, and I first learned about this uh from a book called Against Empathy.

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