15/10/2024
Empathy is a subject worth some serious consideration.
There is some clear evidence that most people generally only have empathy for people like themselves. The widespread discrimination against minority groups and women (despite being a majority) shows that empathy does not take a huge space within most human beings.
Bullying, beating, excluding, ignoring, enslaving, discriminating against etc etc is certainly not empathy……
We can however learn and through learning we can change, if we want to.
by Charlotte Valeur, Founder of ION, the Institute of Neurodiversity.