The teenager’s toddler watched the exchange. He said he lived with his mother, and they were facing eviction. “A kid” answered the door, saying he didn’t know how the items got there.
Morris phoned the Sheriff’s Office and met deputies at the home. In 2015, as told Wednesday by the Herald-Tribune’s Billy Cox, Josh and his wife Hannah were driving through the neighborhood and saw their bicycles and baby trailer, which had been stolen, sitting in a neighbor’s front lawn. They are fighting objects and dogma, not people, complex beings who came to their conclusions - right or wrong - through a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad.Ī little empathy might be just the balm they - we - need.Ī whole lot of empathy saved the middle of the week through the story of Joshua Morris and his family. In this case, I would have given the benefit of the doubt that our choices were not motivated by some nefarious effort.īut that assumption is the default mindset for many people these days. I don’t know how people can operate otherwise. I live by benefit of the doubt until I am proved wrong. But in the same email, referencing some editing, he threw in how that effort had reinforced “the liberal media stereotype.“ At least he labeled it a “stereotype” - “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.”Ī little of Atticus’ empathy could have helped. That doesn’t make it right or desirable.Īnother small example came in an exchange about the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office with a local businessman complimenting the Herald-Tribune for running a rebuttal to a recent column. Do we really want to be a country where it’s OK to routinely punch for the temple or the heart or the soul? I know we do it every day. His reference is to rules for boxing drafted in London in 1865. all commentators play, Marquess of Queensberry rules are nonexistent.”įlowery, but in my opinion false. When I challenged a reader this week in his reference to one of my writers as a “dolt” (asking whether in his long career in the retail world he had ever called one his employees a “dolt” to their face), he said it was different because she was a commentator: “My good man as a career journalist (I presume) surely you understand in the realm of public opinion, where. Part of it is social media and other digital communications that numb us to our delivery and stymie our conscience. Part of it is our political divisiveness. So many of the great things America accomplished in the last 243 years were rooted in empathy. There are some who would say that a nation’s decline can in many ways be traced by its loss of empathy. The United States made the list, but six other nations were ahead of us. A 2016 study led by Michigan State University tried to get a handle on the most empathetic countries.
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