19 Uncomfortable Truths About Human Nature - Gurwinder Bhogal - #1073

0:00It's been too long, man.

0:01You write these awesome things on the internet.

0:03This is the eighth time we've done this now.

0:05For the people that haven't seen you before, you come up with some of my favorite aphorisms and insights and stuff.

0:10And we just do that.

0:11We're kind of like the Bonnie Blue of interesting insights about the internet.

0:15We're just taking whatever we get.

0:17It's high-velocity stuff.

0:19The first one that I want to get into, the oxytocin paradox.

0:22This is one of yours.

0:23Oxytocin, the love hormone, can also make people spiteful.

0:27Cruelty is not simply the opposite of compassion.

0:30It's often adjacent to it.

0:32For instance, the platform most dominated by social justice activists, Blue Sky, is also the one with the highest support for assassinations.

0:41Beware of those quick to show empathy, for they are often just as quick to show barbarity.

0:47Yeah, so this is a finding that I sort of came across quite recently, but it confirms something that I've long known, which is that people who outwardly express a lot of empathy tend to also be equally capable of cruelty to that same extent.