A comment worth sharing
“Remember the words of G.M. Gilbert, the army psychologist presiding over the Nuremberg trials, who said this after having witnessed the trials of many Nazis:
I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
To my mind, more than anything else, the Gospels and the Parables in particular, are about teaching us as disciples to have empathy for others.
Thank you. Helpful.
Been thinking a lot about this lately. I think that Milgram’s experiment is particularly important to explaining where we find ourselves.
And we all know who blasted empathy…..
I have heard it said that lack of empathy is a mental disorder, or a component of several mental disorders, so that would mean evil is a mental illness? Where does malice fit in with this? Food for thought about forgiving evil…
I have heard it said that lack of empathy is a mental illness, or a component of several mental illnesses, so that would mean evil is a mental illness? Where does malice fit with this? Food for thought on forgiving evil……(repeating this since I gave the wrong email address the first time I commented – autofill)