On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 9, 2014 4:20 UTC (Thu) by luto (subscriber, #39314)
In reply to: On the sickness of our community by ras
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

I find your post difficult to understand, so I freely admit that I could be taking your last sentence very much out of context:

> But my guess is Kathy's world is the way it is because deep down she is incapable of ignoring it.

If I'm understanding this sentence right, this sounds like blaming the victim. And is it really at all reasonable to expect Kathy to be able to ignore threats [1] to her family?

[1] No real citation here. @seriouspony is gone from Twitter, Kathy's blog post is somewhat rambling and very hard to follow without context, and most of Wikipedia's citations are either dead links or incoherent. Nonetheless, either there were no serious threats (which I find hard to believe) or there were, and the problem here is the threats, not Kathy's inability to ignore them.

On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 9, 2014 13:30 UTC (Thu) by gerv (guest, #3376) [Link]

I'm not sure it counts as blaming the victim to suggest that they have *too much* empathy... However, it would also be good if the solution were better than "people need to learn to care less about things".

Gerv