Sunday, April 1, 2012

Empathy

No one is a villain in their own narrative. In your own mental model of the universe, your actions are always justified, or at the very least make sense. Whenever you see anyone do something that to you seems so despicable as to not have any possible justification, you can be sure there is a world in which that action actually is justifiable: The internal world of the person who did this. Think about it: Heinrich Himmler lived in a world in which his actions made sense and were justified. I'm not saying this is karma or poetic justice, or that it was in any way a "just punishment" for what he was doing. But it could not possibly have been a pleasant world to live in.

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