re: #42 goddamnedfrank

I think it’d take a lot more than a few days, it’s too cliche - to pat - simplistic Trading Places shit. You’d need them to actually believe the circumstances of their lives had irrevocably changed, forever, to even have a hope of reaching through.

I mean, the woman in the article already had cancer, and a double mastectomy. She thought she’d beaten it, and that shit was behind her. It’s only when the cancer came back that she gained a hint of humanity on the issue and stopped thinking of mandating that health plans cover chemotherapy as some kind of a fucking “handout.”

I don’t know what it is, where the conditioning comes from, whether it’s something in the way they’re raised or what. But the empathy deficit often seems to extend down to the very core of the conservative personality, like a pathological rot.

There definitely seems to be an inability to think philosophically. IIRC, that has something to do with frontal lobe development …