Without empathy human would not have live so long time, it's the base of our society/family/clan !
Appeal to tradition. Just because we might have needed empathy before in order to survive, that doesn't mean that we need it today. Furthermore, just because it might have been useful before that doesn't mean that it is useful today.You're wrong, lol. Empathy it's one of the most important principles of humanism. I very doubt that you would change your residence in humanistic country (as i know - Austria) for USSR or Third Reich
yeah, it was two empires which were built on principles of rationalism. Also, there existed many "good" organisations with members without empathy. NKVD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD) or Schutzstaffel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel)
People without (i mean they don't have such trait) empathy it's mostly maniacs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy for example. The man who didn't fill any empathy for his victims and any guilt. Quote from wikipedia:
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Psychopathy is a personality disorder partly characterized by antisocial and aggressive behaviors, as well as emotional and interpersonal deficits including shallow emotions and a lack of remorse and empathy.
BUT! I agree with you that we can't have empathy for criminals.
My opinion: actmyname is very honest with his feedbacks. Merit traders and other criminals will butthurt anyway, 'cause they don't have empathy
I think you've got it wrong. Why would you care for someone that doesn't affect you at all? You can't compare empathy in earlier years and now. Communities were smaller and you kind of got to know and benefit from one another.
Just because we might have needed empathy before in order to survive, that doesn't mean that we need it today.
Sad but true. World is moving hell of a lot faster than it did before.
Also, psychopaths absolutely lack sense of regret, remorse and empathy. That doesn't mean you should abandon all of that for you family, friends,etc... People you care about.
Now on the topic about Actmyname... if you did nothing wrong and think you're falsely flagged, there must be a reason for that either a correct one or some misunderstanding. Don't make a mistake, like I did, and go around the forum screaming and crying about your negative trust, because it's not going to help.
If you know you're falsely flagged, make a topic and explain your situation. Eventually, if you're truly falsely given neg trust, it'll be removed.
I don't think that he should be demoted, because he's actually fair about it and will remove the trust if it's unjust. I'd rather give out yellow flag like a warning before anything.
Now, I'm not 100% sure that actmyname's ratings are outside of what I would consider appropriate, which is why I didn't take action to immediately remove him. But from what I've seen, it does seem likely that he is too trigger-happy.
I'd also love to give my answer to this quote considering Actmyname. That may be BUT if that person truly is falsely given neg trust and has given a rational explanation on why is it unjust, then I do believe that that neg trust will be removed. So even if you get neg trust, you'll have it removed soon enough if you're clean. I don't know about that "racist elitist" thing, never encountered it. Cheers!
(not pointing at anyone, just speaking as it is from personal experience)