The major issues with empathetic thinking is emotions get in the way of reaching logical conclusions.
For instance, if someone is really angry when talking to someone, their emotional thinking may ruin their relationship with them.
Instead, people should use logical thinking as opposed to empathetic thinking. This way, someone can make the best choice available to them at the moment.
Wait until you discover that almost every action taken by a human is irrational, unconscious, and based on their emotional state and feelings. And that humans do not communicate with logic, they communicate by exchanging the way they feel and perceive the world with each other, within a mutual logical/perceptive framework.
I would suggest you do a little bit of research into neurobiology - It’s very humbling to be confronted with the fact that we have approaching-zero control over what we think and feel.
Why do you think that empathy and logic are at odds?
In my mind, they are complimentary concepts. Empathic thinking involves trying to understand the other persons view point. From there, you can use logic to evaluate their perspective.
Downvoted a real unpopular opinion 👍👍
I think it’s more that the opinion is poorly conveyed / thought out.
Empathetic thinking is something completely different than what OP is describing. In fact, it’s almost the opposite.
Personally I come here for the well-argued but wholly blasphemous opinions, not hot takes or rants.
We have these popular tropes of Spock and Sherlock Holmes getting it right by being logical, but the idea that pure logical thinking exists at all is a myth. All conscious thought occurs within a chemical and emotional context. Those emotional components are needed for thought to function at all.
The idea is explored in great detail in Descarte’s Error: Emotion, Reason and the human brain by Antonio Demasio, a very readable book about neuroscience.
It’s logical to include empathy in decision making.
That’s sympathy, not empathy. 🤦🏼♂️
Chalk another “unpopular opinion” up to basic vocabulary failure. Y’all going for a hat trick today, FFS?
Well clearly you wouldn’t do very well in an exclusively rational world.
Empathy is not at all the same thing as just acting based on emotion
^this lol. some other comments are trying to deconstruct the argument normally which is helpful i guess but really OP just doesn’t know the dictionary definition of empathy.
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