"Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony". But Ben, your idea of happiness does not seem to be correct. If you try to invade a country, surely your civilian will just be physically demolished too as the war involves death and injury. When you show your anger through those missiles, can you once think being at their shoes? You are definitely destroying the world happiness. True, power is good. It widens your territory, but if what you make to get it done is also widening the area to explode. The area does not even have zero oxygen balance, so don't purposely make one. What good you have to fire people to death? Don't you be ashamed of who you are? Show your empathy, because without that, there is no humanity.

I Think Empathy Is Vital

Without Empathy There Is No Humanity
By: nothingandsomething
Written on February 11th, 2011
Without empathy there is no "humanity"
(humanity both being defined as "all human beings collectively" & "the quality of being humane; kindness; benevolence")


I think empathy is what is missing in the world, with its deficiency causing everything considered destructive, cruel, or evil.

On the environmental and animal level:

Preservation of our natural home and the species that keep it in balance would be to have empathy for all people and species of the world. Because without a home, none would survive. No abuse or torture would be inflicted on animals because we would empathize with their physical pain, as we humans are not apart from it.


On the international level (war):

With empathy for the people you would consider fighting, you would understand their grievances and they would understand yours. Leaders would empathize with their own people and the other nation's people, knowing that the death of an innocent is no less precious than their own.


On the national level (government):

Government would serve the needs of all people, regardless of their circumstances, being empathetic to those who suffer most. National leaders would see that money would be a way to solve problems and lessen poverty, rather than grease the hands of the already rich and powerful. The people would collectively understand that having wealth means nothing when your neighbor starves.


On the familial level:

Giving and taking among spouses and their children would be equal, each knowing that more pleasure comes from seeing their family content than coveting space in the home or control over all for themselves. Husbands would not control their wives and wives would refuse to do the same. Marriage would be a partnership rather than a struggle for power, knowing that marriage and a family cannot be happy if only one is satisfied.


On the personal, human level:

Everyone would see themselves in each other, regardless of beauty, race, socio-economic status, nationality, or sex. They would feel grief for a starving orphan on the other side of the world, the same way as if it were their own child. Charity would be an impulse, love would be unquestionable.


God, I sincerely pray that empathy fills the hearts of those with little or none, or those who have forgotten the boundless empathy they possess. Without it there is no humanity.


By: nothingandsomething
Age: 22-25, Woman