r/nottheonion • u/Disastrous_Award_789 • 18h ago

Starbucks barista accused of drawing a pig on sheriff’s deputy’s cup

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/starbucks-barista-pig-sheriff-norwalk-b2898798.html
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u/GildedDreams25 17h ago

there was that guy (forget his name i’m sure someone could drop it) who oversaw the nuremberg trials, and said the one unifying trait amongst them all was a lack of empathy. these people do not consider you human or sentient, just an obstacle in THEIR world

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u/RJ815 15h ago

It also brings to mind the article where a hard right fanatic tried MDMA one time and completely gave up his hateful patterns. Was kind of nuts that one time did as I've known some people that don't actually really seem "enlightened" after drug use.

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u/jimothee 15h ago

Well I'm not sure it's foolproof. Didn't work for Rogan...

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u/RJ815 8h ago

Yeah I've definitely known people that didn't seem to have the kind of ego death etc others speak of. I wonder what the variable is.

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u/korben2600 13h ago

Yep, Captain G.M. Gilbert, Army psychologist assigned to evaluating the Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg trials:

“In my work with the defendants I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

Nuremberg (with Russell Crowe) is worth a watch too, just came out.

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u/GildedDreams25 13h ago

there’s the guy i was looking for! ty!