Why should children have any opinion at all about the sexual preferences of adults?

I didn’t post it in bad faith, it was just the first article I found that explained the concept...

What is a decent human being?

At what point does someone else’s struggle become your problem?

“To live a morally consistent life in the modern world is to basically reject all pleasure. If you came across a child drowning on your way to work, but saving them requires you to get your shoes wet, should you do it? Obviously yes, but now imagine there are a million drowning children all around you all the time. You can’t live your life in any kind of normal way while saving all the kids. “

“Would you jump in the water to save an ocean of never ending drowning children? Would you stop to grab some food and a drink? If you did, a child might drown that you could have saved. Would you just keep saving the children until you yourself succumbed to exhaustion and death? But what if by letting some children die so you could refuel yourself, you could then save more than if you never stopped? How do you measure this?”

I feel like so much of this talk about empathy is just a bunch of posturing and virtue signaling... I think Dennis Leary summed it up best in hislast line in this great scene from Rescue Me

As long as it teaches it as a life long discussion, and not something that's settled, then sure.

I see many folks on both the left and right suffer from the same mentality of thinking morality and ethics is something that is a solved issue, when its anything but.

What percentage of people on the right would you guess fit that criteria?

This article sums it up pretty well.

https://www.getinflow.io/post/adhd-toxic-empathy#signs-of-toxic-empathy

Is it a bad thing to hate people who hate gay people?

Is being indifferent to gay people better or worse that hating them?

For sure! I'm not against empathy at all, I just think it's the type of thing to have the opposite effect when unorganicly pushed in a classroom setting by certain teachers.

I just think it's pointless posturing. Kids are going to be kids and don't give a shit about what their teachers have to say about morality. Better they just stay out of it and stick to academics.

I remember going to a strict Christian school with all sorts of rules and moral teachings. It was all fucking pointless. I wish they would have spent more time on math and history.

How do you teach empathy? How do you test if it's even effective?