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[moaninmoonen]

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[everybody-loves-to-eat]

[everybody-loves-to-eat]

the nostalgia 

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[intimatehighfive]

[chaoticape]

While empathy ensures the cohesion of a group or a society, it is also biased and parochial. Revenge thrives on it. it is easily directed at an ‘in-group’ at the expense of an ‘out-group’ that can then be targeted as an enemy, and dehumanised. Its selectivity also explains how we can walk by a homeless person without feeling the need to offer help, or rejoice in nasty gossip about a disliked absentee. Inevitably, we all practise selective empathy, its absence manifest in everyday, non-lethal instances of violence that occur in social and family life, in business and politics.