All that Theon hate makes me think a lot about empathy and what it means, and how it's so easy for some people to switch their empathy on and off, and that when they do the latter, human beings (or fictional characters) are suddenly deserving of the most horrid experiences. It's such an archaic concept of morality. And it worries me that so few people are capable of seeing that.
^^^ no but like... selective empathy is.... I just, I don’t know how these people act irl but usually at most you should have *cognitive* empathy if you don’t have emotional empathy and like, these people obviously lack the emotional (which... let’s say that I have it fairly high in a good number of cases so it just looks even worse to me lol) but like... at least use the cognitive one? I mean, I didn’t shed any tears over cersei suffering but I didn’t like the walk of shame and I didn’t think she deserved it because I have cognitive empathy enough to realize that no one deserves that, can people get the memo? because if they think that ptsd is a joke with fictional characters idk how they deal with it irl, but then again last week someone was posting about purposefully triggering war veterans on this small alcove of little sociopaths in training so what do I know? anyway, yeah, welcome to the old testament indeed