Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Modern Western civilization has extraordinary empathy compared to its power. This is also arguably its greatest weakness.
With the nuclear bomb, America could have subjugated every nation on Earth with ease. Hitler and Stalin would certainly have done so.
Instead, America helped rebuild Germany and Japan!
There is no historical precedent for a nation with so much power helping, rather than destroying, its defeated enemies.
Joel Shepherd Author@ShepJoel· Mar 28, 2024And there are many parasitical strategies that use a person's empathy against them. Sometimes these develop into entire political/ideological movements, where the population's empathy becomes an attack vector that the unscrupulous can exploit for gain.
10:27 PM · March 28, 2024 · 38.5M views
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