Allie Beth Stuckey

But I do argue that empathy in itself is not necessarily good. Empathy in itself is neither good nor bad. Empathy in itself is just neutral. Because if I feel how someone feels, say a man who identifies as the opposite sex, I can say, wow, it would be really hard to think that you're stuck in the wrong body if that's how someone feels.

But in what I argue is that it has to stop there in that if it goes to the point to where I am obscuring reality, the reality of male and female, if it is going to the point where I am affirming a policy that violates the rights of women to private and protected spaces, then my empathy has become toxic.

But in what I argue is that it has to stop there in that if it goes to the point to where I am obscuring reality, the reality of male and female, if it is going to the point where I am affirming a policy that violates the rights of women to private and protected spaces, then my empathy has become toxic.

then it has motivated me to do something that I believe is actually harmful to that person because I'm affirming a lie. And lying is not the same thing as love. But also, it is propelling me to affirm a policy that is harmful to the people on the other side of the moral equation. And that, of course, is the girls and the women who are then forced to share these private, intimate spaces with men.

then it has motivated me to do something that I believe is actually harmful to that person because I'm affirming a lie. And lying is not the same thing as love. But also, it is propelling me to affirm a policy that is harmful to the people on the other side of the moral equation. And that, of course, is the girls and the women who are then forced to share these private, intimate spaces with men.

Yeah, you're absolutely right. I like what you said that ideology kind of adulterates empathy, but I argue that empathy has to be in submission to truth. I'm a Christian. And so I believe that absolute truth, moral truth is found in scripture, but it also has to be in submission to observable reality, biological truth, factual truth.

Yeah, you're absolutely right. I like what you said that ideology kind of adulterates empathy, but I argue that empathy has to be in submission to truth. I'm a Christian. And so I believe that absolute truth, moral truth is found in scripture, but it also has to be in submission to observable reality, biological truth, factual truth.

For example, if my child comes to me and she tells me, mom, there's a monster in the corner of my room. I could empathetically say, wow, that must be really scary. But it would not be loving for me to affirm her fear, to say, yeah, you're right. That probably is a monster. Go back to bed.

For example, if my child comes to me and she tells me, mom, there's a monster in the corner of my room. I could empathetically say, wow, that must be really scary. But it would not be loving for me to affirm her fear, to say, yeah, you're right. That probably is a monster. Go back to bed.

The loving thing to do is to go into her room to turn on the light and say, baby, that's just a pile of clothes. That's not a monster. But today, when it is unpopular to turn the lights on and to tell someone that the that they fear or the thing that they've constructed in their mind, the narrative that they are following isn't real.

The loving thing to do is to go into her room to turn on the light and say, baby, that's just a pile of clothes. That's not a monster. But today, when it is unpopular to turn the lights on and to tell someone that the that they fear or the thing that they've constructed in their mind, the narrative that they are following isn't real.

It's just the proverbial pile of clothes when it's more popular and it's considered more loving and more righteous and more empathetic to tell someone, yeah, you should be really scared of that monster or the delusion that you believe is absolutely true. people are really disincentivized to tell the truth because you get punished for it. You get blowback for it.

It's just the proverbial pile of clothes when it's more popular and it's considered more loving and more righteous and more empathetic to tell someone, yeah, you should be really scared of that monster or the delusion that you believe is absolutely true. people are really disincentivized to tell the truth because you get punished for it. You get blowback for it.

You and I are used to getting criticism. Most people aren't. So when you can just say, well, I'm just being empathetic by affirming something that you don't know is true, for example, that a man can become a woman, well, most people are going to fall in line.

You and I are used to getting criticism. Most people aren't. So when you can just say, well, I'm just being empathetic by affirming something that you don't know is true, for example, that a man can become a woman, well, most people are going to fall in line.

Yeah. And gosh, that goes so deep into the differences of worldviews because there are different definitions of even harm. Like whenever I'm talking to a progressive or when I'm reading something from someone on the other side of the aisle, I really have to take the time to to ask about every word, but what do they mean by X? So what is meant by harm?

Yeah. And gosh, that goes so deep into the differences of worldviews because there are different definitions of even harm. Like whenever I'm talking to a progressive or when I'm reading something from someone on the other side of the aisle, I really have to take the time to to ask about every word, but what do they mean by X? So what is meant by harm?

What they typically mean is that I am hurting this person's feelings. And this kind of goes in line with their ideology, which of course they believe that who we really are is what we feel on the inside. And that physical reality is kind of arbitrary. It's in submission to how we feel.

What they typically mean is that I am hurting this person's feelings. And this kind of goes in line with their ideology, which of course they believe that who we really are is what we feel on the inside. And that physical reality is kind of arbitrary. It's in submission to how we feel.

That's how they land at the conclusion that someone's true identity and true self is not what they are on the outside, but how they feel on the inside. And of course, I don't believe that. I think science, biology, observable reality tells us a lot about what is really true and who we are. So when I say harm, that gender ideology harms someone, I'm not just talking about hurt feelings.