Guerre and Shalom

Guerre and Shalom

Rule by empathy

How tears (foolishly?) lead to political action

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Daniel Clarke-Serret
Jul 14, 2026
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Newspaper images. Focus groups. Emotion by television. They all spell only one thing: Rule by empathy. If it suffers, you cry and if you cry, they legislate. Reasoned argument have left the building only to be replaced by making us feel better.

I understand empathy only too well for barely a day goes by without me meeting an asylum seeker. Not because I’…

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