<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yes, huge point here.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t feel angry at ticks or V. cholerae. I would feel very angry at a person who injured something innocent. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I prefer my affect toward trump to be closer to my affect toward ticks, because I think he is degraded enough to not qualify much as human.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hold that position, having considered that I need to be careful, because “dehumanizing the enemy”, as it is fashionable to call it in the current writing, is the tactic of genocidalists. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The trumpers? Big range. There’s probably a “Universal Basic Humanity” that you get, which comes with your genotype, and you have to actively squander it to become coeval with a tick. But to have more humanity than the UBH, you do have to make an effort to deserve it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eric</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 12, 2020, at 2:00 PM, Frank Wimberly <<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com" class="">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">If you feel angry at them while not understanding that it's because they're similar to you then you will feel ambivalent about your anger. If they're not similar to you you probably won't feel anger<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto" class="">---<br class="">Frank C. Wimberly<br class="">140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br class="">Santa Fe, NM 87505<br class=""><br class="">505 670-9918<br class="">Santa Fe, NM</div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 11:55 AM <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" class="">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="m_-3768292318181603998WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Frank wrote<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="m_-3768292318181603998quotation">and feel angry at them<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">But you are always <b class="">free</b> to feel angry at them. The question is, “What is that doing for you? Why bother? And why do you NOT feel free to be angry, any time you want? And does “feeling free to be angry” have anything to do with “being angry”? <span style="font-family:Algerian" class="">Who knows what evil lurks in the depths of the human heart? The Shadow Knows. <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Nicholas Thompson<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Clark University<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class=""><span style="color:#0563c1" class="">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwordpress.clarku.edu%2fnthompson%2f&c=E,1,zKScOG-XzIetSmtG5NqWwsWaubhQbOVFbbcBS_bzQ2U9tPXE_griKcdSNL6nyVETlAHRjG-OYLq_Utr5wsQZq7B_eqDyKmL0kYCfF_z7&typo=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class=""><span style="color:#0563c1" class="">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><b class="">From:</b> Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> <b class="">On Behalf Of </b>Frank Wimberly<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b> Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:47 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">friam@redfish.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Biden beats Trump<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">After you are in touch with the empathy and understand it, feel free to reject the Trumpers and feel angry at them.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 11:42 AM <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in" class=""><p class="MsoNormal">If anybody understands what Glen is saying, please explain it to me. I feel he has tried hard enough. I sympathise with his frustration, and am taking action. <br class=""><br class="">(Private Message : Sorry, Jon I lied. )<br class=""><br class="">N<br class=""><br class="">Nicholas Thompson<br class="">Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<br class="">Clark University<br class=""><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a><br class=""><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwordpress.clarku.edu%2fnthompson%2f&c=E,1,lSC2gLBGqAp7yGveANNR3y-vRjN_Z0ZUeMukb8VREkBoe4UcHM-m6RYYOXq2A8BddZtgPRHyaTX2sni9QJBrcbtxrGhiKTjU8Z_ixtu6OYwSDrUgX3dn&typo=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-----Original Message-----<br class="">From: Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> On Behalf Of u?l? ???<br class="">Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:20 PM<br class="">To: <a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">friam@redfish.com</a><br class="">Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Biden beats Trump<br class=""><br class="">There's so much that's so wrong I can't let it go uncommented. Everything you say (in almost every post) seems to factor out *time*. When you say "As commands to the self, [anger, hate, contempt, etc.] make no sense what so ever", you're speaking as if the Nick of 20 years ago is the exact identical Nick as the present Nick, which is so wrong as to be laughable.<br class=""><br class="">Your ill-expressed point is that the empathy/sympathy emotions for Trump supporters are not under your intentional control. And you seem to be saying that those of us who claim we shouldn't "spare" any empathy/sympathy are either in denial or self-blinding or somesuch. Again, that ignores *time*. Sure, I feel empathy for some of them, someTIMES. But I don't for others of them, at other times.<br class=""><br class="">If you've ever extracted yourself from an abusive relationship, you should understand this episodic concept. If you have never had such a relationship, then you are the luckiest person I've ever met. The longer the idiocy goes on, the less empathy I feel, the fewer episodes of empathy I experience. The abuser only has so much time to change his ways before I explode and murder him in his sleep, my tears of sympathy mixing with his blood.<br class=""><br class="">Maybe the additional premise is that there is such a thing as time and evolution? It's weird that someone who talks about things like MOTH would fail to understand that, though.<br class=""><br class="">On 11/12/20 9:57 AM, <a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br class="">> Ok, but, let’s look at that impulse. Is it the impulse to sympathize? <br class="">> Why is that so scary? Sympathy is informative, not paralyzing. Can one not feel sympathy for the rabid dog just exactly at the moment one kills it? Somebody ran over a cat in our yard, once, crushed it’s hindquarters. I felt tremendous sympathy for the cat, /and so I killed it. / For sympathy to be paralyzing, there has to be one more premise, and I cannot identify that additional premise. Anger, hate, contempt, etc., are assertions of an ought. Oughts only work in the context of trying to incite others to a common action. As commands to the self, they make no sense what so ever. So, unless you are standing in front of crowd, trying to get them to lynch somebody, these emotions are self-blinding. Now, I suppose, self-blinding is useful, when you just don’t want to fuck with subtleties of life, but nothing about them can be claimed as rational. Right? 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