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WCDT Strips 4336-4340 (25th-29th, August 2020)
chris73:
--- Quote ---And if I could be so bold as to suggest something? Get. The ####. OUT. Of corrections. Unless you are close to retirement or have a significant investiture in a pension system, GET OUT. That job field damages mind, body, and spirit. I should know.
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What exactly are you disagreeing with and why?
Is it my belief they, mostly, lack empathy (do you think they have empathy for their victims) that you disagree with or my belief that a lot of them are quite selfish (you don't think its selfish when someone takes something of someones simply because they want it)
Before you answer have a look at some of the things I wrote on criminal justice reform thread: https://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,34220.250.html
Lastly you seem to be under the impression that I don't (or can't) empathize with the prisoners well in some cases you're right I can't (and won't) however there are certainly some that I do feel bad, that got a really bad roll of the dice, I don't forgive what they've done but I can understand why they're here however I don't think I could do this job if I didn't have empathy because, to me, its the empathy I have (especially for their victims) that makes me want to help them stay out of prison (its certainly not the money or the hours)
I assume that all COs have, to a lesser or greater degree, some form of PTSD. In order to combat this I have asked my wife to tell me if she notices any changes in my behavior, I have made the decision to not drink as much as I used to, i (sometimes its a major chore) take regular exercise and when I can I try to get out into our great outdoors as much as possible (something about it does me better then sweating it out in a gym) and I also use our counselling service as and when I feel I need to
I won't be a CO forever (probabtion is where I'm planning on going) but for now CO is where I'm best placed
Is it cold in here?:
Empathy ... depends on who and where. I asked my prison pen pal what the biggest surprise of her sentence was. She said it was the kindness of the other women there. (Minimum security camp, so carefully screened prisoners. I don't claim this is a general rule.)
She said the women incarcerated with her were just like any you would meet at the bank or the post office.
What are some examples of May showing empathy? Everything I can remember offhand has her being pretty self-centered.
Gnabberwocky:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 30 Aug 2020, 22:22 ---Empathy ... depends on who and where. I asked my prison pen pal what the biggest surprise of her sentence was. She said it was the kindness of the other women there. (Minimum security camp, so carefully screened prisoners. I don't claim this is a general rule.)
She said the women incarcerated with her were just like any you would meet at the bank or the post office.
What are some examples of May showing empathy? Everything I can remember offhand has her being pretty self-centered.
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May helped Dale and Marigold get together in the first place.
Dale accidentally told Marigold that he liked Emily more, and May helped them patch things up.
After the rice incident, May helped Momo clean up and checked in with Dale and Marigold to make sure everything was okay.
Honestly, Dale and Marigold probably wouldn't be together now if not for May.
Wingy:
--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 30 Aug 2020, 22:28 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 30 Aug 2020, 22:22 ---...
What are some examples of May showing empathy? Everything I can remember offhand has her being pretty self-centered.
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Honestly, Dale and Marigold probably wouldn't be together now if not for May.
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One could also argue, successfully I think, that May did that bit of matchmaking to assure herself a cheaper (Dale insisted she pay a share of the rent) place to live without having to be with utter strangers or subject herself to the rental market as a former felon; which would make that action less about empathy and more about self-centered-ness. Karma being what it is, she engineered a situation where she has to be careful about entering her own domicile because of the possible activities that might be going on... That, in and of itself, is amusing because May herself is deeply interested in the very same activities and doesn't know how to respond when she's not in the mix.
Tova:
One could perhaps argue that, but successfully?
I don't think there's any evidence in the comic to support it, other than your judgement of her character.
Also, you're forgetting that she did her bit of matchmaking while she was still a hologram (there's your example, IICIH?). I don't think she was calculating that far ahead.
Just because she doesn't put her empathy on display, and is constantly on guard against any moments of vulnerability, does not mean she possesses no empathy whatsoever.
Dale saw a good person underneath all of that attitude way back in #2514, and I will never tire of reminding the forums of that.
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