The two examples John used in the post are the nail video and John’s teammates who did ~none of the work.
If people want to defend the position that empathy should rarely make you judge people more harshly for their behavior, they should give other examples, rather than imply that John is getting those two wrong (as those two are consistent with his position).
I think generalizing from fictional evidence puts the conversation off to a bad start because John uses a misleading intuition pump for how empathy would play out in more realistic situations
It’s fair to not want to defend fictional examples as non-representative, though I think it was helpful for illustration. (And he did give the other example of the team project at the elite university where John did most of the heavy lifting.)
The two examples John used in the post are the nail video and John’s teammates who did ~none of the work.
If people want to defend the position that empathy should rarely make you judge people more harshly for their behavior, they should give other examples, rather than imply that John is getting those two wrong (as those two are consistent with his position).
I think generalizing from fictional evidence puts the conversation off to a bad start because John uses a misleading intuition pump for how empathy would play out in more realistic situations
It’s fair to not want to defend fictional examples as non-representative, though I think it was helpful for illustration. (And he did give the other example of the team project at the elite university where John did most of the heavy lifting.)
To be clear, they did substantially more than zero of the work.
It is likely that they felt they did more useful work than John felt they did.