anilmc<p>Empathy is a level of awareness that takes account of the subjective experience of other conscious agents. The empath can act on feedback from those conscious agents (and develop deductions and projections based on that feedback) to create real and subjective extra sensory nodes in their informational network about the world. Their brains adjust to the expanded information environment and the sociality of the inputs inure against "exploits". Those without that awareness or the will to develop it, even if they remain for a while ephemerally alive, are fundamentally and permanently deadened to that level of awareness (and to that extent render themselves and their consciousness dead), and act as a force for death in the world. When people like this die from organismic life, the world is fertilised and energised with the repressed life energies of all that organism was blind to. In a very real and literal sense, lack of empathy is the only culpable disability.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a></p>