1) About Rush Limbaugh, his possibly imminent demise, humanity and empathy. I keep negative agents in a dehumanized state. As an "entity endowed with social agency", "it" (Rush) is negative and "its" demise is positive to society.
2) "It" unfortunately leaves a legacy. Negative entities leave legacies, too: observe the recurrent "revisiting" of the original Nazi ideas, which were also revisiting of something else. I propose acknowledging "it" as we acknowledge the holocaust.
3) Or how we will acknowledge trump after he's gone. "It" will be an interesting case and "it" will be studies together with similar entities. These are not people to me. I'm sure they poop and eat, and also have cancer. Their private existence has no relevance, though.
4) If "it" had threatened my life, it would be harder to dehumanize "it" as I do. I would hate "it". And hate clouds reason. I don't try to *not* hate for any moral reason. It's only because I know it impairs my intellectual ability, my most lethal weapon.
5) Deep down, though, I'm content it will cease to exist.
More later about the impossibility of universal empathy and the damage of moralistically trying do adopt it.
More later about the impossibility of universal empathy and the damage of moralistically trying do adopt it.
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