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
Plenty of philosophers have rejected the idea of fatalism with the new findings of quantum mechanics, but what if I told you the main philosophical problems could be accounted for and fatalism would still be on the table? This would certainly make thinking logically about the progression of the universe a lot easier, and would certainly do materialism a favor. What exactly is fatalism, determinism, compatibilism, and libertarian free will? Well, our ideas of free will seem to be embedded on us at birth. Either we take the idea from certain other humanistic behaviors, such as that of certain religions which use it as a foundation, or we genetically believe it to be the case. Either way, believing in free will is an almost human universal. I won't go too deep into the argument for free will, but there are three basic stances on the free will issue. You have the philosophers who believe in determinism, compatibilism, and libertarian free will. Libertarian free will