05:22 Oct 26 2023
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In realms where empathy's tendrils reach,
Irrespective of circumstance, a lesson to teach.
Yet, impractical it seems, this grand decree,
When eradication is a doctrine's key.
No ethical plea guides this assertion,
But a nod to empathy's judicious insertion.
Humanity, a vessel of conflicting forces,
Actions and ideologies, life's diverse courses.
To proffer empathy to the extremes,
Archaic aggressors and marginalized dreams.
An intricate dance, compassion's ballet,
A simultaneous act, in disarray.
For compassion directed to one,
Contradicts and annuls for the other, none.
The essence of empathy, at stake,
Veering into hollowness, sincerity's quake.
To extend empathy to society's blight,
Denies it to those oppressed in the night.
A choice between oppressor and oppressed,
A dilemma profound, compassion's test.
A romantic notion, equality in heart,
Idealistic, potentially tearing apart.
Counterproductive, this belief system's grip,
Potentially deleterious, empathy's flip.
Those who empathize with oppressive fright,
See it as noble, righteous, and right.
They censure those without empathy's flame,
Deeming them callous, devoid of the same.
Advocates seek to rehabilitate,
Hostile forces, change to create.
Appeals for pity and empathy's sway,
Blaming division on understanding's decay.
Yet, reaching minds entrenched in stone,
An endeavor futile, seeds sown.
Certainty, not confusion, their creed,
Bridging gaps may empower the misdeed.
A change, elusive, in mindset entrenched,
Requires epiphany, where beliefs are wrenched.
Cognitive collapse, awakening's door,
Without which, fortifications endure.
Attempts to force a revelation's bloom,
An exercise in futility, a challenging room.
Willingness to assist undeterred,
But change demands a mind unblurred.
True transformation from within,
Epiphany's dance, where new beliefs begin.
Until that moment's light appears,
Ideological rigidity perseveres.
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