I think it's hilarious that hands down the worst way to learn magic is the actual rulebook. Please do not read that. It's just there for reference when something weird happens
posts that i know are about magic the gathering but i have to check to make sure op isn't just living in a way doper world than me
i hate ppl with canon urls like fuck you what did you do to deserve that
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Concept: tabletop RPG set in one of those allegorical brainfuck high school settings where the educational system is a metaphor for patriarchy or fascism or whatever the fuck, except the players take on the roles of regular background students who are just there to learn math. The protagonist of the notional cartoon series they inhabit is a rarely glimpsed background character whose journey of personal revelation is inscrutable and often absurd to the player characters, whose own goal is simply to survive to the end of the semester. Each scenario is obliquely based on the premise of the current "episode", which is not explained, like everybody wakes up as bears one day, then next week they're back to normal and never find out why.
(It is of course possible for the player characters to figure out what's going on, and even to identify the notional protagonist, but any attempt to actually interact with them will be frustrated by a series of seemingly coincidental obstructions, because "canonically" the player characters are unnamed extras who never say or do anything on camera. Figuring out how to interfere with a canon scene is one possible campaign-ending trigger.)
Ironically (or possibly intentionally), this is a great use of the educational system as a metaphor for class immobility and the failure of meritocracy in the face of rigid, aholistic social support structures.
I mean, I didn't think I was being subtle!
Some neurodivergent people feel low or no empathy towards other people. This is not an indication of moral bankruptcy or a sign someone is a bad person. You need to stop saying things like "Conservatives are evil because they just lack empathy.", or "The left is the party of empathy."
Empathy is a feeling in which the suffering of others causes you to suffer to some extent.
Compassion is a conviction to do good for your fellow human beings because you feel their suffering should be alleviated.
The correct statement would be "Right-wing politics lack compassion." And the inverse "Leftist ideals are built on compassion."
We as leftists should not assume those incapable of feeling a certain emotion are incapable of acting with compassion, as that is deeply ableist.
The feeling of empathy can motivate compassion, but it is not required for a person to be compassionate. Those with low or no empathy can and do act with compassion. To care for others even in the absence of an instinctual pack-bonding drive to do so is truly revolutionary, and it should be recognized as such.
My own mother threw me out to die alone on the streets. She was high empathy, and believed she was doing good, and it hurt so much to do you see but it was for my own good. High empathy can be monsters too.
My best friend is a sociopath, and he'd fight God for those who are real and true to him. He has shown more compassion than anyone I'm tied to by blood, and he does it with what little empathy he can scrape from a bottle because he is disabled, not evil. He makes the choice every day to care. He isn't driven to it by instinct. He CHOOSES compassion.
Empathy is not morality. And it sure as fuck isn't compassion.
