If you lack empathy are you bad if you make up for it?
If you lack empathy for others but try to be a good person to make up for it does that still make you a bad person?
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Here's a secret that people don't like to talk about: empathy is as much learned/grown as it is inherent (if not more so).
If you find yourself lacking empathy for your fellow humans, work on it- put some effort into the thing. You'll be amazed. The key with empathy is that you realize that people really aren't that different from each other, and also that you're a person.
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Lacking empathy doesn't make you bad.
I'm a good example of this. I don't seem to have much empathy and don't have much emotion, although I do have a bit. At the same time I do good things. Its not to make up for anything though. Doing the right thing simply makes more sense than being a dick head.
You don't need emotion to do the right thing. The right thing is usually simply the logical choice.
Peoples thoughts do not make them bad.
What makes someone a bad person is their negative actions.
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Bad karma comes from bad deeds. So doing good deeds because you know its correct vs doing good deeds because you care would not give you bad karma. That isn't how "Karma" even works. Before you start using words you don't understand try looking them up. You are on a computer. Should not be that hard.
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I understand a lot better than YOU understand what i'm talking about. Your condescending approach doesn't make you righr. I'm old enough to have been there, done that many times over, plus I have studied buddism and that philosophy on karma. When you dont have empathy in general it is not necessarily, directly related to your karma, i'll give you that. However, the lack of empathy can make u not care about what happens to others & very commonly leads to bad karma.
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No you don't. Also if Karma did work that way that would say no one should ever do good deeds. Not everyone is inherently generous, or overly emotional or love everyone or have a perfect moral compass.
So you really cant expect the entire world to do good things because they feel like it. This would also destroy every system that implements Karma. Such as Christianity.
"Do good things you go to heaven" or "Do bad things and go to hell". Sin is doing bad things you know are bad but you want to do. Which is how many religions work. Such as reincarnation. "If you do good in this life you will become something better in the next life".
Avoiding sins is not doing the right thing even if you don't feel like it. So no karma is doing a good thing not doing a good thing because you want to.
Christianity works on a system of karma. So if Karma is based on if someone wants to do good there is no point in trying to be a good person.
Since that says we are all doomed from the very beginning and there is no use in doing good. Meaning that would break the system. So no karma is bad vs good deeds. Not if someone cares to do those deeds.
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