Mr_Lasastryke posted... kirk said empathy is a "made up new age term that does a lot of damage" lol, why are we acting like what this idiot is saying makes any sense
Why are you replying to people responding to the full context with the original out of context quote as if that isnt literally the subject of conversation lol.
v-charon posted... I'm just not for using that particular quote because it's the perfect target of the movement of people that believe Kirk wasn't a bad guy. The full quote talks about having sympathy and compassion because empathy is a bit more difficult. Inherently, there's nothing wrong with that.
There are just a lot better quotes to use.
I think the quote specifically is bad because people read the next sentence and go ok yeah I get it, but the entire context of his actual beliefs on empathy (that its fake and only used to trick people into taking action) make him more ghoulish than the out of context quote does alone.