Assumptions we've created based on our educational, economic, and political institutions may be wrong. Our identities or where we feel we "belong" has shifted over the course of human civilization based on arbitrary outward situations. i.e. the "fiction" called the nationstate, religious affiliation, blood ties.
Empathy is the opposite of utopia - there is no mortality or suffering in utopia. Empathy is based on frailty and imperfections: the ability to show solidarity with other humans, other creatures, and our biosphere.
"Mirror Neurons" are proving empathetic capacity - humans are softwired for belonging, attachment, sociability rather than aggression and selfishness.
Is it possible to extend our empathy to the entire human race? the other creatures we share this biosphere with? and the biosphere itself?
To Empathize is to Civilize.
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