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Selective Empathy

  A selective empathetic is a more sinister evil than the outright unempathetic. The unempathetic is quite small in numbers, and are under more scrutiny. The selective empathetic is one of reflective desire, picking and choosing those to be glad for and wishing to prosper based off of desired personal gain, gain that involves putting others down in the process. This level of empathy is pure submission to outside preachers, outside systems, media, literature, art, and economics, and represents a dark and fallible inner sense. Letting things simply happen, apathetic to their greater truth, nihilistic in meaning, and a walking product of guiding forces around them. A pure empathetic is empathetic to all in all situations, noticing the humanity in all. It is sad to notice the selective empathetic being a prevalent and lauded endeavor, when the qualities of such selective empathetic are thought of also as manipulation. A great contradiction in social morality and personal character judgeme

To Define Objectivity

             Under our pretenses of the word, objectivity is to act in accordance to a rule set, or logical conclusion created from such. What we may use to define objectivity is a little less inherently known, however. A few examples of a good understanding of objectivity is the rules of games like chess. Under this rule set we must follow all procedures in order to continue playing the game. Any violation of these procedures is a violation of said game. Certain games, such as chess, can use the terms of practicality in order to define what is useful and what is not useful. A useful move in chess would be anything leading towards a checkmate (notice the objective.) In this instance, the move would be considered a good move if it results in a checkmate, or anything leading to a checkmate, without subsequently being on the receiving end of said checkmate. Here, the rules are simple and laid out for us.      In order to continue onwards, we must think bigger than just che