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“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”
– Elon Musk

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
– Hannah Arendt

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
– Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trails (1945-1949).”

- That Elon quote smelled to me like it could be propaganda created by an Elon-hater. But the Muskrat did, in fact, say it during a 3-hour interview with Joe Rogan that was released on February 28, 2025. Google "Hannah Arendt" (1906-1975) and you will se that was a German and American historian and philosopher. – RHW

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