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I don't want to limit my empathy to people who only meet specific qualifications.
I think jokes and empathy can be somewhat orthogonal. In fact, I think any stable society/org requires a court jester. But dang, the amount of dehumanization, lack of empathy, and sometimes joy, I see is really scary. There are some angry, empty, people on the internet, that I hope to never meet in real life.
I noticed this in the combatfootage subreddit. The things that were said in there were disgusting sometimes.