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[–] CapinBoredface [S] 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

I have empathy. I'm not acting like a psychopath, you're just being a tool.

No one, you included, can possibly care about every living thing on the planet.

You don't even know how many things are alive on the planet. How can you possibly care about things that do not exist?

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[–] DoomMantia ago  (edited ago)

You specifically asked about human children. If you can't feel empathy for the deaths of the youngest members of your species you're definitely a psychopath. Hell, even irrational animals protect their youngest. You're worse than those animals.

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[–] CapinBoredface [S] 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

A human child just got killed in a car accident somewhere in the world.

Probably several to be honest.

One probably got hit by a train too.

Do you feel bad?

A kid just starved to death. Probably several actually.

Do you feel bad?

A whole bunch of kids are currently being raped and sold as slaves. Do you feel bad for each and every one of them?

If you answer yes, you are lying to me and yourself. You cannot possibly feel bad about events that you do not even know are taking place.

And before you say it, no, being upset that it happens to people is not the same as feeling empathy for the individual.

I'm not happy that kids die. But I'd be lying if I said I care about them as much as I care about my family.

If you put my family and a random Syrian kids on the same scale they would be at opposite ends.