Steve Hein's Thread

[stevehein]

a receptionist from brazil in the che lagarto hostel in montevideo (who now is jw- jehovah's witness) told me this story

once he went home crying and said a boy had hit him. his father pushed him out of the house and said dont come home till u find that boy and hit him and make him cry

we talked about this a bit and i asked how much empathy he felt by his father at that moment and he said zero. then i told him about my theories on empathy - which basically is that to change things we need to be motivated by enough pple having common feelings, common pain

another reason not to give kids/teens anti depressants to numb their pain...