alt Hacker NewsJust FYI, you should have sympathy.
There's an enormous difference between weighing the pros and cons and coming to a different conclusion than somebody else, and having no sympathy for somebody else.
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sophacles • yesterday at 9:25 PM
Just FYI...
There's an enormous difference between having no sympathy for an idea and having no sympathy for a person.
Sympathy doesn't simply mean "understanding"; that's one small aspect of the definition of a more complex word that also denotes emotional reflection.
Having weighed the pros and cons, I have come to the conclusion that the correct amount of (emotional) sympathy for the position of "we should kill all the eagles because farmers deserve only endless profits, never (minor) costs" is infinitesimal.