I know a lot of people here are missing the mark - the issue here is EMPATHY not -feelings-.
"We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. "
"We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness."
Please take in the WHOLE message before dissecting a single sentence.
Empathy is not the problem everyone has empathy for their own social groups. The problem is the division between these social groups. There is no grey anymore just black and white. You either hate me or love me.
I agree but I also think its more complicated than either hatred or love. Conversion therapy is, I think many people would agree, a form of hatred on gay people. But a parent trying to force their child to be straight would argue they love them dearly and that, if the parent was gay, they would happily undergo therapy to become straight and normal, so they are also empathetic. It's hard to argue about empathy and hatred and care when logic is twisted like this.
> Empathy is not the problem everyone has empathy for their own social groups. The problem is the division between these social groups.
From this I'd say limiting empathy to our social group leaves a hole where the empathy for everyone else should be - and that divisions grow in that hole.
Maybe if so many people are "missing the mark" it is because of poorly chosen words?
It is important when writing such a long speech to keep in mind that at best 1 or 2 sentences, slogans, et will be remembered or used as extra short summary of the essence of the speech. If the idea was empathy and not feeling then that's the word that should have been used.
"We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. "
"We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness."
Please take in the WHOLE message before dissecting a single sentence.