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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

if they didn't consider the limitations

They did, and planned for it to the best of their abilities given the available resources. Being disabled doesn't mean you stop trying to be a functional human being. The illogical thing to do is to sit at home and do nothing because you're not 100% certain that things will go well. Because as you said,

Nothing is 100% efficient [or certain or guaranteed]

So should we not strive to make things as predictable as possible?

Everyone deserves empathy. All sentient beings, including this hypothetical man.

Again, all people deserve empathy

And yet, your ideal scenarios, you keep favouring one person/group at the expense of another. I don't know if empathy is the word you actually mean to use. You can empathize with everyone while still favouring specific people, but your examples suggest that you're using "empathy" to mean the actions you take (or don't take) to help someone rather than the emotional state. In that case, it's is indeed a binary either/or. In your examples, what you do to help one person will negatively affect others.