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Empathy Can Be Weaponized
Empathy was meant to open us to others.Now it often closes the conversation. We are trained to feel before we think.To mirror emotions before examining causes.To treat discomfort as harm. Empathy, unexamined, becomes leverage. Whoever claims the deepest pain claims moral priority.Whoever feels the most wounded gains immunity from scrutiny.Questions begin to sound like cruelty.…
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Context Is a Cage
Context is supposed to help us understand.Lately, it mostly helps us excuse. Every claim is wrapped in it.Every action softened by it.Every line blurred until nothing sharp remains. We’re told to “consider the context” whenever something feels wrong.As if wrongness were a misunderstanding.As if harm dissolved when properly explained. Context used to illuminate meaning.Now it…
The Daily Heresy
Thinking out loud where algorithms prefer silence.