Empathy is critical thinking. Putting yourself in the other persons shoes requires thought and effort, at least to develop it. From there it can become more intuitive.
The people who omit critical components to their thinking, like other people, beings, the impact on the region and planet, are not critical thinking. At least not well.
This is so true. I've realised that the root of my success is that I think about things more deeply and/or more often than pther people, and I'm more patient. I started to lose that part of myself and then started to fall behind. Now i'm on the path back, making my life less hectic andntrying not to fry my dopamine receptors
His motivation in the movies was even dumber than the one in the comics. Seriously have you not understood people can breed? Also with the gems you could make more resources like, forever.
Komodo Dragons. Apex predators in general. It would do humanity a ton of good if we were being actively hunted at all times of the day. We're built for that. Keeps us on our toes and down to earth.
Here in Europe we get high quality mixed raw salads rinsed and ready to eat, and while in the beginning I thought "ugh, more plastic packaged food- what for?", now I can't do without them. Five different types of salad in a bag I can just open and pour out with any meal is a godsend, it's not expensive either.
Edit: Oh, except the vinaigratte, that I make myself obv, I don't trust store bought shit with that level of finesse.
I just don't see why this sort of thing qualifies as a need and not a want. Such a treatment, were it to ever actually leave a lab setting and become a consumer product, would almost certainly be so prohibitively expensive that only the ultra-wealthy could get it.
Why should our uber-rich overlords get to extend their lives even a single year while there are people starving to death around the world? There are so many better ways to spend research grant money.
Would you say that there is no need for better research for curing cancer just because new treatments will be super expensive, so only uber-rich zilionairs will benefit?
Probably not. (I hope)
Aging-caused diseases are really just some other type of health problems that leads to death. And curing such things is what medicine is doing. Heart bypass is a great example of helping to survive such problem.
And yes, new tech is usually expensive. And with adoption it became not only cheaper but better. Compare first mobile phones that was super expensive and could do nearly nothing to todays cheap smartphone that is more powerful than the computer that helped us to land on the Moon. If you care about health of poor and middle class people, you could rather help to accelerate the adoption, so more people can afford aging-reversal medicine sooner and not suffer from aging.
I think I see where you're coming from, but I disagree that longevity treatments are equivalent to medical research that seeks to cure diseases.
The way I see it, everything dies eventually, even the stars above. I think it's one thing to seek to ensure that everyone gets to reach their 'natural' end (i.e. old age) by addressing things like cancer or degenerative diseases, and a totally different thing to artificially extend a lifespan past those natural limits.
I don't really have logic there to back it up, it's just a different category in my head. The only time I really see this sort of stuff talked about is by loony wealthy people doing crazy shit like stealing their kid's plasma in the name of living longer, which is probably coloring my perception unfairly of real longevity research.
Yeah, that's understandable! The society teaches us from early age that there is a distinction between "diseases" and "aging". So this distinction continues in our minds and we hardly ever question it. We learn it by imitation without deep understanding. In most cases it works well and serves as a usable and attention-saving shortcut. And it also may be responsible for prolonging old concepts that need a review.
The trauma and dysphoria come almost exclusively from societies attempts to shove us into a box. From being othered, from being told we don't understand our own bodies and minds. Being trans is uncomfortable at times, yes, but so is just being a human being.
Doesn't body dysmorphia exist outside of society though? I don't know if there's been any anthropological study done, but I would assume that it would exist and be traumatizing regardless of the society you were in.
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Quazatron@lemmy.world · 91 pts · 189d
Empathy.
victorz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 189d
A little less talking and a little more listening.
tomiant@piefed.social · 4 pts · 189d
Please.
Swaus01@piefed.social · 63 pts · 189d
Swaus01@piefed.social · 25 pts · 189d
theherk@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 189d
Tough to argue with that.
Chozo@fedia.io · 8 pts · 189d
Amen brother
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 189d
Is this why Friends reruns are so popular?
Swaus01@piefed.social · 3 pts · 188d
rami@ani.social · 2 pts · 188d
I'm doing my part 😂
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 50 pts · 189d
Evil men facing consequences
Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 188d
Women too. Fuck ghislaine.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 189d
Biodiversity.
victorz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 189d
We honestly need to be not at the top of the food chain. We'd probably do a little less fighting I'd presume.
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d
In that case, I'd guess only less against other humans
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d
Yes that was what I meant 😅
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 189d
Critical thought.
That actually solves every other issue in this post.
18107@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 189d
Except empathy. You can still decide to keep people as slaves when it benefits you and you don't have empathy.
TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 189d
And braless women in tank tops
RykardNixon@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 188d
Empathy is critical thinking. Putting yourself in the other persons shoes requires thought and effort, at least to develop it. From there it can become more intuitive.
The people who omit critical components to their thinking, like other people, beings, the impact on the region and planet, are not critical thinking. At least not well.
Visstix@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 189d
Dead billionaires
tomiant@piefed.social · 28 pts · 189d
tomi000@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 189d
Empathy
dan1101@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 189d
Empathy for people you don't personally know
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 189d
It's not really empathy if one can't apply that sense outside one's own personal relationships- that's just sparkling selfishness.
Asafum@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 189d
Cowbell.
But more seriously, empathy and an absolutely gigantic reduction in greed.
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 189d
Quiet spaces. Just sitting and breathing for a while is a valuable activity. It doesn't have to make money to be worth doing.
Una@europe.pub · 18 pts · 189d
Hyraxes
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 189d
LOVE
::: spoiler spoiler Level Of ViolencE
IN THIS WORLD, IT'S KILL, OR BE KILLED!
Botzo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d
Not where I assumed that was going.
DandomRude@piefed.social · 13 pts · 189d
Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 12 pts · 189d
Thinking time.
The first mover advantage is so overwhelming in so many arenas. If we had the time to think we'd probably make much better decisions.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 189d
This is so true. I've realised that the root of my success is that I think about things more deeply and/or more often than pther people, and I'm more patient. I started to lose that part of myself and then started to fall behind. Now i'm on the path back, making my life less hectic andntrying not to fry my dopamine receptors
Berttheduck@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 189d
Hope.
JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 189d
We need to be making actions to give us hope
Hackworth@piefed.ca · 12 pts · 189d
Imagination
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 188d
Proper distribution of resources
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 188d
A concept Thanos was too dumb to grasp.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 188d
His motivation in the movies was even dumber than the one in the comics. Seriously have you not understood people can breed? Also with the gems you could make more resources like, forever.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 188d
Bingo! Although the issue is rarely that there aren't enough resources to go around, it's that some groups hoard them.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 186d
Dude literally could've make intimate resources and distribute them eliminating even that problem and still fucked it up
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 188d
Agree. Also the most politically neutral way to say that 😅
KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 189d
Many great comments. I'd like to add green&walkable cities :3
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 189d
What the world needs now
is love sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just
too little of
AskewLord@piefed.social · 10 pts · 189d
More appreciation for how good people have it.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 189d
And how bad.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 189d
Kindness and solidarity
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 188d
Love, sweet love
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 188d
It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
StickyDango@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 189d
Less consumerism, more mindfulness.
Being able to get paid for something you truly enjoy doing so it doesn't feel like work at all, and actually be able to live on the pay you receive.
And like a lot of others have mentioned, empathy and kindness.
Beacon@fedia.io · 9 pts · 189d
Love, sweet love. It's the only thing that there's just too little of
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d
I did that too! But a different verse
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz · 8 pts · 189d
Tariffs...its tariffs right?
Wars?
Hatred?
Billionaires?
Pedo-kings?
Ok, I'm all out of ideas.
defrostedLasagna4921@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 189d
It's obviously AI! We must slap AI into every single thing on this planet and let it take control of our entire lives.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 189d
Agreed, thinking is hard we should let machines do that.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d
Haha i think tarrifs can be good but we all know the ones you're talking about specifically
AzuranAurora@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 189d
Guillotines.
Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 189d
Chill.
Both literally (global average temperature) and figuratively.
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 189d
Queso
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 189d
Tenderness. Where is the tenderness? Where is it?!
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 189d
Public transit
Social safety nets <-plural
Unspoiled wilderness
Passive-house housing
Solar and wind energy
Justice
early_riser@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 189d
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 188d
Yep!
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 188d
hansolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 188d
Ooooh, they're still out there. They just need users who aren't an average of 85 years old.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 188d
Perfect breasts.
Also, you ARE the Brute Squad.
Magzmak@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 189d
Selflessness
Drusas@fedia.io · 1 pts · 183d
Altruism.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 189d
Love, sweet love, no not just for some, but for everyone
RBWells@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 189d
Love, sweet love. Not just for one, but for everyone.
chunes@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 189d
Random access memory
vane@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 189d
trees and wild animals
sockinggood@piefed.social · 4 pts · 189d
Home phones; no shitty portable emotional energy drainers in your pocket.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 189d
Question was more, not less.
certified_expert@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 188d
Love
Genuinely caring for one another.
From it stems empathy, respect, caring about the planet, about the ones struggling, and all the good stuff.
Take care, fellow humans ❤️
hesh@quokk.au · 3 pts · 189d
Love, sweet love
zz31da@piefed.social · 3 pts · 189d
Kindness
tomiant@piefed.social · 3 pts · 189d
Komodo Dragons. Apex predators in general. It would do humanity a ton of good if we were being actively hunted at all times of the day. We're built for that. Keeps us on our toes and down to earth.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d
We are, just by society - i.e something we haven't evolved to survive being hunted by. We're much like dodos.
disregardable@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 189d
High quality salads. Enough with the bagged American and factory dressings.
tomiant@piefed.social · 4 pts · 189d
Here in Europe we get high quality mixed raw salads rinsed and ready to eat, and while in the beginning I thought "ugh, more plastic packaged food- what for?", now I can't do without them. Five different types of salad in a bag I can just open and pour out with any meal is a godsend, it's not expensive either.
Edit: Oh, except the vinaigratte, that I make myself obv, I don't trust store bought shit with that level of finesse.
kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d
Integral thinking. Currently only cca 2% of population and desperately needed in even more complex world!
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world · 3 pts · 189d
People like YOU!
troglodytis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d
I don't know what the world may need, but I'm sure as hell that it starts with me. That's wisdom I've laughed at
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 189d
karma.
dsilverz@calckey.world · 2 pts · 189d
@FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world
More rehearsals of what's happened in September 2 1859, but multiplied like never before.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d
Lol!
Canigou@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 189d
Trust
Drusas@fedia.io · 1 pts · 183d
Trustworthiness.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 188d
Positive news.
Samsy@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 189d
Brain
kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d
Longevity / rejuvenation / aging-reversal researchers and funding.
We can already reverse aging in lab and could it bring to humans in wild. But for that we need resources.
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 189d
I just don't see why this sort of thing qualifies as a need and not a want. Such a treatment, were it to ever actually leave a lab setting and become a consumer product, would almost certainly be so prohibitively expensive that only the ultra-wealthy could get it.
Why should our uber-rich overlords get to extend their lives even a single year while there are people starving to death around the world? There are so many better ways to spend research grant money.
kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d
Would you say that there is no need for better research for curing cancer just because new treatments will be super expensive, so only uber-rich zilionairs will benefit?
Probably not. (I hope)
Aging-caused diseases are really just some other type of health problems that leads to death. And curing such things is what medicine is doing. Heart bypass is a great example of helping to survive such problem.
And yes, new tech is usually expensive. And with adoption it became not only cheaper but better. Compare first mobile phones that was super expensive and could do nearly nothing to todays cheap smartphone that is more powerful than the computer that helped us to land on the Moon. If you care about health of poor and middle class people, you could rather help to accelerate the adoption, so more people can afford aging-reversal medicine sooner and not suffer from aging.
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 189d
I think I see where you're coming from, but I disagree that longevity treatments are equivalent to medical research that seeks to cure diseases.
The way I see it, everything dies eventually, even the stars above. I think it's one thing to seek to ensure that everyone gets to reach their 'natural' end (i.e. old age) by addressing things like cancer or degenerative diseases, and a totally different thing to artificially extend a lifespan past those natural limits.
I don't really have logic there to back it up, it's just a different category in my head. The only time I really see this sort of stuff talked about is by loony wealthy people doing crazy shit like stealing their kid's plasma in the name of living longer, which is probably coloring my perception unfairly of real longevity research.
Edit: fixed a typo and clarification
kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 183d
Yeah, that's understandable! The society teaches us from early age that there is a distinction between "diseases" and "aging". So this distinction continues in our minds and we hardly ever question it. We learn it by imitation without deep understanding. In most cases it works well and serves as a usable and attention-saving shortcut. And it also may be responsible for prolonging old concepts that need a review.
tixnou@feddit.cl · 1 pts · 189d
Catgirls
save_the_humans@leminal.space · 1 pts · 188d
Cooperatives and nationalization of key industries.
rossman@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 189d
A new species that humbles humans.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 188d
Trans people 🏳️⚧️
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 188d
As I understand it, being trans even in the most accepting environment is an uncomfortable experience at best. Even traumatizing.
I'd love to see a world where being trans is as normalized and accepted as eye color.
rami@ani.social · 3 pts · 188d
The trauma and dysphoria come almost exclusively from societies attempts to shove us into a box. From being othered, from being told we don't understand our own bodies and minds. Being trans is uncomfortable at times, yes, but so is just being a human being.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 188d
Doesn't body dysmorphia exist outside of society though? I don't know if there's been any anthropological study done, but I would assume that it would exist and be traumatizing regardless of the society you were in.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 188d
Ideally, being trans wouldn't even be a thing - people would just be who they are without anyone worrying about gender roles.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 0 pts · 189d
What the world needs now, is another baby
Oh-whoahoh 🎶