• teft@lemmy.world
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    Jeff Winger: “We’re the only species on earth that observes “Shark Week.” Sharks don’t even observe “Shark Week,” but we do. For the same reason I can pick up this pencil, tell you its name is Steve and go like this.”

    (Jeff snaps the pencil in two.)

    Abed Nadir:Oh!

    Jeff Winger: “And part of you dies just a little bit on the inside. Because people can connect with anything. We can sympathize with a pencil, we can forgive a shark, and we can give Ben Affleck an Academy Award for screenwriting.”

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    It’s pretty well established that humans can empathise with inanimate objects. It just sucks (but isn’t surpriusing) that people think “okay, but can I use empathy to make money?”

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    I wish we would use this phenomenon to build a more empathetic society with incentives that encourage people do do things that are mutually beneficial

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      Nah, let’s use this information to squeeze even more money out of people. Gotta be the first person to be responsible for the majority of human suffering capital. /s

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        Must Human males now compete with Klingons too for the elusive female of their own species? Where will it end?! /j

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    I hate that this would work on me. I’m also stingy as fuck which comes in handy here but I can absolutely hear myself go “aww” at a stupid single banana.