I so admire your writings. I'm 86. I've had the good fortune to live in many areas and Visit even more. I've seen the cold War, the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, 9/11, messed up departure from Afghanistan and Vietnam too, lousy politicians only in it for power and money, bad government decisions at all levels of government, drugs, messed up southern border. Etc etc etc.
And now I have to add
.. im so totally ashamed of so many of our really messed up and confused young people. I just can't understand what is going on with them
.. not just with those who demonstrate against Isreal and the atrocious, sick actions of October 7th.. but with so many young people all around the United States.
My generation and my children's generation have not passed on so many important values which would make them good Americans. They appear easily led.. rudderless. A sad group of easily manipulated young people. This does not bode well for the future of this country .
But then I think there might be hope for the future when I read your editorial. Thank you very much. Hopefully there are more like you tucked away out there somewhere.
Everyone has to inderstand that behind all the hatred against Israel and Jews, the wormd organization of Muslim Brothers is more or less silently at work worldwide. All this is pretty organized . As soon as morning of october 8, hundreds of thousand people in the streets everywhere in the West chantind the same slogans, holding the same flags . Spontaneous ??????
I might add, they are not only uninformed useful idiots, but COWARDLY uninformed useful idiots. Every one of these cowards has his/her face covered to hide IT’S identity, the true mark of a spineless, anonymous follower.
It's sad blind hatred in instilled in people who know little of the history of that region. Killing innocents is never justified. However, we must admit Hamas will never accept peace. That terror group is dedicated to a single goal followed by another goal--destruction of Israel, destruction of the West.
In my view, the tome for conversation with our ennemies is now over. It is time to fight and the dreadful situation on american campuses will not subside . These Islamists student organizations are here to stay and are generally funded by Qatar and the Muslim Brothers . These fonances should be your targets. As long as foreign funding is legal , the situation can only get worse. Legal action is needed against Islamists organizations which calls for intifada , which means calls for civil wars . And Jewish students should learn krav maga. The pnly response now is fight
Empathy is the wrong word here. Empathy is an animal response: someone else gets kicked in the head, and you flinch. The word you want is “compassion:” where one deliberately places oneself into another’s difficulties, another’s pain, on the one hand to help that person but on the other to grow spiritually beyond one’s limited perspective. The terms overlap, of course, but one is animal, immediate, the other deliberate. What we have now is not a lack of empathy, but a celebration of murder: which means, I fear, that those doing the celebrating have great empathy for the victims of 10/7, but revel in their pain, because their ideology has led them to bloodlust. “Empathy” is a neutral term, in the end.
Empathy according to the Cambridge dictionary, in line with other dictionaries, is “the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation.” I would agree, though, that empathy, by this definition, is often more productive than sympathy. And a very important skill.
Empathy is tricky because it’s so easy, not to say promiscuous.
They justify themselves to themselves by pretending empathy for supposedly oppressed and suffering <anyone-but-Jews>. And as they only need to fool themselves, the easiest people in the world to fool, they are convinced they are empathetic.
I so admire your writings. I'm 86. I've had the good fortune to live in many areas and Visit even more. I've seen the cold War, the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, 9/11, messed up departure from Afghanistan and Vietnam too, lousy politicians only in it for power and money, bad government decisions at all levels of government, drugs, messed up southern border. Etc etc etc.
And now I have to add
.. im so totally ashamed of so many of our really messed up and confused young people. I just can't understand what is going on with them
.. not just with those who demonstrate against Isreal and the atrocious, sick actions of October 7th.. but with so many young people all around the United States.
My generation and my children's generation have not passed on so many important values which would make them good Americans. They appear easily led.. rudderless. A sad group of easily manipulated young people. This does not bode well for the future of this country .
But then I think there might be hope for the future when I read your editorial. Thank you very much. Hopefully there are more like you tucked away out there somewhere.
sadly not just young people but professors as well...
Everyone has to inderstand that behind all the hatred against Israel and Jews, the wormd organization of Muslim Brothers is more or less silently at work worldwide. All this is pretty organized . As soon as morning of october 8, hundreds of thousand people in the streets everywhere in the West chantind the same slogans, holding the same flags . Spontaneous ??????
I might add, they are not only uninformed useful idiots, but COWARDLY uninformed useful idiots. Every one of these cowards has his/her face covered to hide IT’S identity, the true mark of a spineless, anonymous follower.
It's sad blind hatred in instilled in people who know little of the history of that region. Killing innocents is never justified. However, we must admit Hamas will never accept peace. That terror group is dedicated to a single goal followed by another goal--destruction of Israel, destruction of the West.
In my view, the tome for conversation with our ennemies is now over. It is time to fight and the dreadful situation on american campuses will not subside . These Islamists student organizations are here to stay and are generally funded by Qatar and the Muslim Brothers . These fonances should be your targets. As long as foreign funding is legal , the situation can only get worse. Legal action is needed against Islamists organizations which calls for intifada , which means calls for civil wars . And Jewish students should learn krav maga. The pnly response now is fight
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Empathy is the wrong word here. Empathy is an animal response: someone else gets kicked in the head, and you flinch. The word you want is “compassion:” where one deliberately places oneself into another’s difficulties, another’s pain, on the one hand to help that person but on the other to grow spiritually beyond one’s limited perspective. The terms overlap, of course, but one is animal, immediate, the other deliberate. What we have now is not a lack of empathy, but a celebration of murder: which means, I fear, that those doing the celebrating have great empathy for the victims of 10/7, but revel in their pain, because their ideology has led them to bloodlust. “Empathy” is a neutral term, in the end.
Empathy according to the Cambridge dictionary, in line with other dictionaries, is “the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation.” I would agree, though, that empathy, by this definition, is often more productive than sympathy. And a very important skill.
Empathy is tricky because it’s so easy, not to say promiscuous.
They justify themselves to themselves by pretending empathy for supposedly oppressed and suffering <anyone-but-Jews>. And as they only need to fool themselves, the easiest people in the world to fool, they are convinced they are empathetic.
Powerful article, thank you Nick.
Stop voting for people who back this.
Stop donating to people who back this.
Stop attending institutions that back this.
Beautiful article