Like the poor lack empathy and then as you go up the bell curve empathy rises, maxing out at middle class, and then again falling as you start hitting being rich?

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    1 day ago

    Selection bias.

    You typically only interact with people who put their children at risk. Someone who doesn’t give a shit about their kids is someone who lacks empathy.

    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 day ago

      This sounds like a handful of people I know that believe food stamp programs are flawed and destructive to society. They same a handful of routine abusers and applied that as the norm. 9 people used the stamps appropriately and faded into a nonexistent memory, but the one person that returned food for fash and bought cigarettes and lottery tickets each time was the face they remembered