Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-7841 - V is for Violence

[@mortenrl1946]

I loved this one. I thought it was great how the "sociopathic" humans considered 7841's empathy an "inability to sustain vital functions for life," since they would see their own predatory nature as the natural strategy. Everything tied together very nicely. Beautiful little tale.

[@travisoliver6741]

To be fair, its correct in an almost twisted fashion. 7841, whose level of empathy is so great that he is classed as Safe (All sapient entities are Euclid), and is willing to sacrifice themselves for a future they will never see, based purely on information from someone who abused them, _absolutely_ could not sustain vital functions for life in this sort of world.

[@HiveTyrant25]

I think the real anomaly here was the fact that pre-empathy humanity was able to reach the post-industrial age at all.

[@stevenhetzel6483]

Great boots of industry, run by complete fucking complete sociopaths with no regard for human life, stomping all over nature and humans alike, are exactly how we even got here, bud. And you don't need empathy to demand worker's rights, you simply appeal to your co-workers selfish natures. Rather than limiting the work week because 12 hour shifts 7 days a week is inhumane and awful, you demand more for it because you can strangle the shit out of the "higher ups" if they dont, and without empathy, there's absolutely fucking nothing holding the pitchforks back. But then the lawman comes in and, what, massacres the entire workforce? Better to just pay them and shut them the fuck up than to pause your industry for 18 years to breed up new assholes to repeat the loop.

[@rachnussouldrinkerlibraria5640]

War is the mother of innovation after all

[@UnePintade]

@@rachnussouldrinkerlibraria5640 I mean yes but cooperation breeds innovation

[@zama422]

No, the real anomaly is the friends we made along the way

[@comradecameron3726]

@@rachnussouldrinkerlibraria5640not really.

[@moonlight_scribe]

This feels like a very satisfying answer to SCP 5000. The worst thing about that article was the open ended presentation as empathy as the presence of a parasite and a weakness where this article presents empathy as the only hope for humanity to survive.

[@domonator5000]

I mean “worst” in the mind of an optimist maybe. To others it could be pretty spot on. Empathy is objectively a potential weakness, it’s up to the individual to decide if it’s worth the vulnerability. Man would agree it is. But some are incapable of experiencing it, others have been burned so many times that they don’t take the risk of indulging feelings of empathy.

[@moonlight_scribe]

@domonator5000 Except that here it clearly results in wholesale slaughter and cruelty. And empathy doesn't have to mean letting people abuse your trust. That is just an issue of setting boundaries which is not mutually exclusive with showing empathy.

[@travisoliver6741]

​@domonator5000 People incapable of experiencing empathy are generally regarded as evil and unpleasant by everyone else who actually grasps what that means. You might be able to work with them professionally, but trusting them with anything intimate (like friendship, love, and genuine camaraderie) is an inherently dangerous thing. You could not build a society if everyone was actually like this. Empathy is, unironically, the most important thing humans have. We are social creatures who, unless they have a literal psychological disorder, love msking friends and connections. Introverts might be averse to actively going out, but at least from my experiences, are happy to talk about their hobbies and interests with someone they can confidently share them with. People who try to avoid making connections due to trauma are paradoxically only really capable of moving beyond that by making connections to someone with significant empathy.

[@alexandercross9081]

Its worth noting that humans do have a high level of empathy, as evidenced by how much people need to go through to supress it these days.

[@rileywiess7895]

God this is the crack fix I needed. I recently became homeless after some absolute bullshit that I won't get into here, but I'm jobless because of it, living in a car that doesn't run. The second I saw this, it started to drizzle rain. It's about the small things.

[@brookeberesford]

Love and light for your friend. Been there, no fun for sure. I made it through. I am sure you will too. Hang in there.

[@hunter_0221]

Sounds like one hell of a story, but I wish you all the best regardless. I know this might sound hella insensitive and possibly egotistical, but I always feel unsatisfied when I hear about such a rotten state of affairs and simply don't know how it came to that. Must be one hell of a story, cautionary tale type. Likewise, I will not be able to help you anyway outside of some fake platitudes and meaning-deprived words, so what's the point? Internet really sucks in that regard. You might as well be several thousand kilometers away on another continent, and I am hearing of your plight, but I just can't do shit. Mildly frustrating, I'd call that. Nevermind that. Just writing down my honest thinking.

[@carbide1968]

hang in there friend.

[@YippityDingleDoo]

I went through the same. Still keeping me from making vids. Keep powering forward.

[@name-np4gr]

stay strong! u can get free electricity at libraries I think.

[@skjoldrodinson408]

I feel like that was a really fun and unique way to use SCP 2000.

[@hellatze]

what it does ?

[@jackknight1899]

@@hellatze Human clone machine when the world is doom

[@Elmithian]

​@@jackknight1899Tbf, considering what it can supposedly survive... ...and how it seemingly can achieve feats well beyond its described capabilities in its files, I reckon it is more like a reality anchor and a reality warper/breaker/reality reconstruction tool more than just able to repopulate the world after a a K and XK class scenarios. Atl in most foundation versions it is capable of so much more than just the base file description. But that is of little surprise considering that in there (atl last time I read the file) they only knew the basic stuff about what it was capable of.

[@iamdigory]

It's the first time I didn't hate 2000

[@tylercarrol5213]

I'm gay! 😅

[@Chimpanz33s]

We’re getting close to the end of these SCPs being posted everyday and I just want to say thank you TES ❤️

[@TripeDemo]

Yes it's amazing

[@ashrog82]

I have to imagine it was quite an ordeal.

[@JLocke0113]

I think it's cool how the SCP is so willing to sacrifice itself for the benefit of people that they will never meet. Truly, they are a paragon of humanity.

[@TheHunted385]

The only kind of beings who deserve the title/name of "God".

[@Dogman262]

@@TheHunted385You're right, and we got one!

[@ivanpn6206]

What I always like about these articles is how humans are depicted differently in either nature, origin, evolution or even variation Some of these have included Scp 2004 - where humans are psychic reality benders having been put mental restraints Scp 1788 - humans have not reach maturity of the adults Scp 939 is implied to be a subspecies of human. Scp 4275 humans in an alternate universe have shark teeth and eating habits A subspecies of human homo ignotus having a natural antimemetic camouflage Scp-5000 implies humans do not have any negative and positive emotions and should not feel pain and are soulless and innately immune to several anomalies.

[@samuelsimmons6647]

Are those the same as the SCP ABCs??

[@xx_gamer_xx8315]

​@@samuelsimmons6647No

[@Ake-TL]

@@samuelsimmons6647these are unrelated

[@FuttBucker420]

May not be the most appropriate video for this, but I want to thank you TES, for the regularity and quality of these videos. I've been struggling with mental health on top of being busy from culinary school, and your content helps me to sleep at night so I can keep going.

[@cactusking4045]

Hope you’ve been feeling better, you got this!

[@hunter_0221]

Always gave me SCP-5000 vibes, that one. It should probably be noted that SCP-5000 was also written by Tanhony.

[@moonlight_scribe]

That makes a lot of sense. Feels like the other side of the same coin and maybe even a sequel with this being the world after the SCP foundation removed the parasite and thereby empathy.

[@dappykenny38]

Foundation: *eliminates empathy* Humanity: *destroys each other to the point of near extinction* Foundation:

[@hunter_0221]

@@moonlight_scribe It sure could be the other side of the coin, but I would also argue that the *concept of empathy* is not the casus belli in SCP-5000. Granted, it would make sense - with the stories both being by the same author, one could actually argue that SCP-7841 is the prequel to SCP-5000. 7841 describes the process by which we have been created - via the help of an anomaly - and 5000 is the Foundation finding exactly that out, recognizing our inherent anomalous properties, and try to contain them. By murdering everyone. "Harden your hearts". Though, as it usually is, I doubt it's as simple. The SCP Foundation in 5000 is still too empathetic - even the Ethics Committee unanimously decided that the anomaly would need to be excised by any means possible. I think that if Empathy would have been the offender, the Committee would have argued that it's a good thing and therefore doesn't need to be contained, especially not through global genocide. No matter how anomalous it may be. However, if it were the ability to feel Pain and other, associated negative concepts? Sorrow? Agony? That would be a different story. "Harden your hearts" could just as easily mean that you should stop feeling Pain.

[@xXShadDragXx]

​​@@moonlight_scribe I think this is a prequel, not a sequel if they are meant to reference the same thing. 7841 added something to humanity, 5000 is finding it and cutting it out again.

[@ahmaddanielazmi1339]

​@@xXShadDragXxIt could work either way. Either this is the prequel and that monstrous entity near the end 5000 is the same man as this scp but distorted over thousands of years of cycles and that distortion is the reason the foundation thinks it has to go. Or it could be a sequel to a 5000 scenario that wasn't undone by a timeline reset and the foundation was able to recreate humanity afterwards without empathy, but then realized why that's a bad thing and tried to find an anomalous human that still has it to reintroduce it to the rest of humanity.

[@xTHIRDHORSEMANx]

My man never stops. Definitely my favorite KZbin channel. I replay every video multiple times to sleep after watching them through. Definitely the reason I bought premium

[@Iknowtoomuchable]

Even a world full of sociopaths eventually saw the need for empathy.

[@Shoegaze-]

There is no objective need.

[@MoonlitRose101]

​@@Shoegaze-we got a survivor of that world

[@IndigoWhiskey]

evolutionary necessity scuplted the most successful species on the planet out of the necessity of empathy... some people are just too self absorbed to see the obvious just past their face.

[@xx_gamer_xx8315]

​@@Shoegaze-Then why is the only species with empathy the only species to have created society and invented stuff? Plenty of other animals are decently smart and use tools

[@oberonpanopticon]

@@xx_gamer_xx8315Some other animals display signs of empathy. Correlation ≠ causation. That being said, the human brain is definitely structured differently from anything else.

[@rofflesvanwagon]

V is for valium of which i shall take 4 of tonight and turn into a jellyfish man

[@lianglonglong]

Thanks

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

Writing prompt: "A story in the scp universe which involves violence." Student: "You're kidding, right?"

[@kenpanderz]

"i have a selfish hunger for empathy. i have none of my own. i am not content with this poverty. i will eat your sorrow until i understand it. i *will* have empathy, even if i must make it from scratch." - the sociopath to empathy

[@luckyhat4]

This is a callback to such an old piece of SCP lore (that human sociopathy and propensity for violence has already been decreased by Foundation intervention and no further changes will be allowed). I really like it but it's basically a Tale moreso than an SCP.

[@xx_gamer_xx8315]

Where does this originate?

[@travisoliver6741]

​@@xx_gamer_xx8315This comes from SCP-2000

[@ZealotOfSteal]

Honestly I really doubt if a species with no empathy would be capable of building a large scale civilization. Our society is based on cooperation, which in large part is based on empathy.

[@joeradford1055]

I disagree with all the comments calling this boring. Yes, it should have been a tale. However, I really liked the moments with the sociopathic people acting like sociopathic people. Like how they casually bet to see who would die for food, or how Baler sees no problem killing off the remaining humans for the new world.

[@korydavid7862]

I have to wonder: Does this mean SCP 7841 was the first carrier of SCP 5000?

[@thomascorbett709]

I wonder what that means for 682 in this iteration of humanity?

[@dappykenny38]

The iteration of the world in this article is free from Empathy, free from Pestilence. Not Disgusting. a strength, but also a weakness

[@Barrlounge]

Interesting link but I don't think so. One piece in 5000 mentions about a SCP MTF "testing" each other with stabbing one another and them killing one of their own when they show pain. So 5000 is less to do with Empathy and more to do with one's own Emotions, or lack thereof.

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

​@@dappykenny38you seem to be suggesting that empathy might be the Pestilence which 049 most effectively cures.

[@creativeevil1369]

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[@SCPRealised]

Love this SCP, as soon as I read it I could tell it was by Tanhony, it just oozes their style.

[@axelprino]

I liked this one, even if plausibility is particularly low in this case. Humans with no empathy whatsoever would struggle to survive, let alone thrive for long enough to develop a complex society, but perhaps these alternate humans were just extra lucky.

[@dillasoul2228]

01:33am, got 5 hours left on my shift. Let's get to it

[@Fulgrim2]

Godspeed.

[@dragonsnail3298]

I lover hearing about the past activation of SCP- 2000

[@thaumaturgeslit7759]

This is very cool, an opposite world in a way.

[@ivanpn6206]

I really like how this ties back to notes and addendum of scp 2000.

[@yungsolopath2603]

Crossovers rule

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Crime Syndicate type universes. Always with those "twisted opposites are the norm" realms.

[@LofiTryfe]

Reminds me of "The Other Internet" Creepypasta. One of my faves. Good stuff.

[@augustus5151]

what a fun month this has been, thank you for the daily uploads, its made coming into work during the week more enjoyable.

[@trenchmouse2438]

Missed opportunity to make it “Vendetta”

[@jamiehamme3]

Voilà!

[@loveableheathen7441]

I've been anticipating the letter V just because of this and my disappointment is immeasurable

[@JerryListener]

V is for aVoiding a lawsuit!

[@loveableheathen7441]

​@@JerryListener V for vendetta =/= V is for vendetta It's different enough

[@michaelandreipalon359]

True, but we can't risk Alan Moore hating on it. Remember, he only loves the Justice League Unlimited adaptation of "For the Man Who Has Everything" for a good reason.

[@_SamC_]

Oh boy it’s 9 am and I’m STILL AWAKE

[@jones7299]

The sun comes up, but you don’t go down Sleep the sleep of the Gods

[@AnomolousPhiliadelphia]

Thanks for making the last half a decade, very bearable

[@ScaerieTale]

Gotta admit, that wasn't what I expected. I love the alliteration of both the director's name, and the subject's age (33)

[@nooneofinterest234]

What surprises me is that the SCP foundation was created in this universe, if these humans had no empathy at all why secure,contain, and protect? It would've been more suitable to make a quasi-foundation organization but instead of trying to protect humanity it studies anomalies to better understand hownto harness them for their own gain.

[@oberonpanopticon]

Can’t take advantage of other people if they’re all dead

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

The chaos insurgency probably came first in this universe, but then a reverse version of SCP-001 "The Insurgency" manifested, creating the Foundation because the CI cannot exist without its counterpart.

[@abydosianchulac2]

Is it stated in this scip that SCP for this iteration means "secure, contain, protect"?

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

@@abydosianchulac2 Savage, Callous, Powermad

[@stargazingskeleton5917]

This was such a good SCP read, dude! Thanks TES!❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[@ChiefArchabold]

I'm spoiled on these daily posts I'm gonna miss this I feel as if I'm being affected by an anomaly myself this month 😂 keep up the great works

[@AcePi]

You are doing amazing work this month. Thank you for all the effort you put in, it's turned out beautifully!

[@shannonmcnally9483]

Articles like this are why I love the SCP. With the right author you get something as good as in any philosophy book.

[@word360]

A human society with literally zero empathy sounds like a society that wouldn't last very long at all lol.

[@lonestarwolfentertainment7184]

I mean they were in the process of going Extinct so yeah you’re very right.

[@travisoliver6741]

Considering they know how SCP-2000 works, I've always believed that the facility recreated humanity with the given template, and has them survive until the equivalent time it was activated. I've always felt that sort of makes sense, considering that 2000 can completely replicate civilizations and no one is aware of what happened.

[@bl1754]

"Why did we have to build this thing? When did we do it? How long have we been doing it? Do we even know?"

[@wensday2724]

THIS ONE WAS SO GOOD I NEED A MOVIE BASED ON THIS TALE IT WOULD BE SO INSPIRING. Which yeah it already is but... I got nothing I just really dig this story and like the others said, being written by the person who did SCP-5000 really explains how this one is just a constant "page turner" as it were. Makes me feel REALLY happy to be human all of a sudden.

[@andrewgutierrez4841]

This reminds me a lot of SCP-5000 "Why?" And the theories around it, (sppilers, kinda:) that humanity isn't naturally sympathetic or empathetic, & that this feature of the human condition is being imposed on us.

[@oberonpanopticon]

SCP-500 is the panacea. You’re missing a zero there.

[@rodin9836]

Really liked this one ! Wonderful month overall, thanks a lot

[@arthurmiranda8896]

My only gripe with this SCP is that a sociopathic humanity would never be able to collaborate long enough to be able to research, develop and build the means of it's own destruction.

[@gummyboots]

To be entirely fair you also don’t know what else is going on I that iteration. Could be any number of factors that lead to their progress as a society despite low empathy.

[@oberonpanopticon]

Just because they can’t emphasize doesn’t mean they can’t cooperate. Just that they’d only do so when it was convenient for them. So politics would still work just fine!

[@EDee20NINE]

That one is really close to the bone..... Excellent work and presentation,this SCP thing has become a huge thing to look forward to. Thank you for the fiction. It alleviates much.

[@TheOneTrueGhostyBoi]

Ya know for a cold heartless monster Bale is kinda a G even through a complete lack of empathy he was able to come to the conclusion that humanity needed empathy to be able to survive and in the end saved humanity

[@Shatterverse]

A while back I decided that if I ever got ahold of a wish, I'd use this (after running it past a good contract law firm and psychologist panel): That every living human, human descendant, and intelligent human creation in perpetuity would permanently have their empathy increased by 50%, with a minimum value equal to current human average empathy, and a maximum not to exceed 100% of current human maximum empathy. The idea being to cure and prevent low/no empathy from disorders like sociopath, psychopathy, narcissism, etc. and make everyone more kind and understanding overall, but without making it so high as to become or cause a different kind of psychological disorder or inhibiting self preservation. The goal is to maximize the good effects and minimize the wrath of the Rule of Unintended Consequences For example; if you were to rate empathy on a scale from 0 to 100 with 50 being the average, it would bump everyone up to a 50-100 on that scale, with an average around 75. My math might be off though, because I have no idea how many 0-empathy people are dragging down the average, which is why I would want the minimum to be raised to a fixed, non-zero constant. The average _could_ be down near 25 on that scale. After review I'd probably have to reword the wish to change out "average" for something more accurate to the purpose of the wish, like "baseline" or something.

[@oberonpanopticon]

transhumanist people would inevitably find a way to undo it, and just do it because they could

[@Mohammedamine9.]

This actually has a happy ending

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

How does a universe in which empathy is anomalous have a word for trauma, or even one for emotion? Without the ability to empathize, humans would regard each other as inscrutable ciphers, Cthulhu-esque in their unfathomable motives.

[@colinwhelan2099]

Heres an interesting idea. The article states that the person is 33 years old. Generally accepted as the age of Jesus when he was crucified. Even more interesting is that this person wouldnt see the new world. He died, to literally dave humanity, in self sacrifice. I might be drawing too many conclusions, but there are definitely parallels to the Passion of the Christ here. I wont say its 1:1, but it definitely feels inspired

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

Thanks for this case The Exploring Series and SCP. I like this case and all, but sometimes I wonder if the cases this month are too ambitious. This is supposed to be The SCP ABC'S Of Death, but sometimes I'm so invested in the case I almost forget all about the death.

[@DailyBasicG]

An scp tale for me.

[@mategido]

Another day another awesome video, man ill miss october

[@glitch-3107]

10:01 is that a Cake reference lol

[@kanadakid147]

Did he say... child farm?

[@mercce6750]

What else do you expect from a dystopian world run by sociopaths?

[@kanadakid147]

@@mercce6750 I'm not sure actually

[@pyrosianheir]

Well, this was fascinating. Loved it.

[@m4ye104]

I just realized that, that one member could very well be alive still, the one that collapsed of exhaustion.

[@sneakytaze5336]

Mixed feelings about this one as I have antisocial personality disorder. Symptoms vary and connecting it to violence is a bit of a.. eh.. depends whether it is logical or not, it's not random like an outburst, but I'm glad this was addressed shortly. That symptoms vary. It's also good for people to remember that people with such disorders aren't monsters. They can love and sympathize depending on the context and individual in question. Though the medical field giving it a label as disorder is already debatable depending on individual cases such as being born with it, or developing into it, etc. Is it really a disorder if one has grown into it due to their environment? If one is born with it even then, it's a very complex topic, which is important to remember.

[@axollyon]

had to do a double take at 12:40, why does this random mobile task force have the same name as me lmao

[@Ghost_Onthehill]

I actually didn't see that one coming. I really like this article

[@gregslingland3576]

This is beautiful, I think. It’s not a conventional beauty, but beauty all the same.

[@TripeDemo]

I love this daily upload

[@DarkLightSwordFight]

Heyyyyyy whos here at 4 am on publish day? this guy!!!!! 😂

[@jaykubisanidiot8657]

Oh I get it... What if humans were Dark Elves!

[@mouseblackcat5263]

When Empathy becomes an SCP... Seems like we aren't that far from reality. :/

[@Toto-95]

"i'm 14 and this is deep" kinda vibe. World is alright, i'd say naivité by the masses is the real killer cause we don't have that many psychos... Just people suck at not following them like sheep.

[@alexcatch2436]

Oh please, be serious

[@clevergray8754]

​​@Toto-95 Your comment also gives off "I'm 14, and this is deep" Energy. Lol @ "the world is fine" BTW. Must have been hard to write that with your head buried in sand.

[@Dave_of_Mordor]

​@@Toto-95 9 out of 10 people are psychopaths

[@saucevc8353]

@@clevergray8754 Compared to most of world history, yes, we are doing far better than we ever have.

[@yungsolopath2603]

10:00 - 10:03 perhaps cake?

[@nicholasdumon5579]

Down, Left, Up, Left, R2, R1, L2, L1

[@IndigoWhiskey]

survival outside of lone wandering makes the necessity of empathy entirely inevitable. thus as with all things characterised as inevitable, general it can be decribed as an ultimatum from the symbolic representation of inevitability ie death (or time if you're an optimist) the ultimatum: empathise with your kin or be forever hunted to extinction by them. empathise or die not a choice as choice isn't bounded but the gun to the head that forms the great filter. funnily enough its technically just an extension of learn or die the evolutionary pressure as the kind of soulless creep who tries to argue it's lack of requirement never fails to take for granted every single effort of work that goes into maintaining their status as living. there is no such thing as a self raised baby stop falling for wild projection to cover for a sensitive ego.

[@Neoentrophy]

I cant see how a violent sociopathic species could have made it out of the stone age, but who knows

[@buttlord4204]

Groups just have such an advantage over the strongest individuals that even if we did somehow come to something close to our current form without empathy, the first individuals that did somehow develop it or something like it, would quickly outcompete those who did not.

[@SkrappyQ]

I think Viltrum from Invincible sorta fits the bill

[@buttlord4204]

@@SkrappyQ you saw there was a spin off of that show too, focused on a girl... That was decent too

[@saucevc8353]

Working together is inherently better than being alone, eventually some people would figure that out and group together for purely selfish purposes.

[@dappykenny38]

Reverse SCP 5000. Empathy and Pain is an anomaly which needs to be extinguished from humans. This article is the opposite of that. Humanity needs empathy

[@mistercrude946]

I think the real anomaly is the friends we made along the way

[@spikedeggnog1843]

P is for priceless.. the look apon your faces 🎶

[@mariofan1ish]

And here I was thinking V was for Vendetta

[@jorge5213]

Just amazing video and amazing scp

[@xBINARYGODx]

So, we were once Vulcan and became Hooman.

[@anon5789]

Very nice article.

[@drachenfeIs]

Chaos heads when mindless slaughter doesn't liberate them 😢

[@franmartosb]

V is very very extraordinary.

[@DanielSan1776]

*OH BOY! IT’S 3AM!!*

[@guitubagrips9719]

Oh boy, its the bigot

[@DeathPonyy]

It's 3am boys!

[@carbide1968]

i would love a world with more empathy.

[@JaqenHghar.]

Thats pretty cool

[@guitubagrips9719]

Day 24 Daily Thanks!

[@bostonbilly7725]

Omg I love Maang. It will stink ofc because he will eventually take a break 💔💔😭😭 lolol. But still the glass is half full right?? 😊 Ty for all your hard work sir and I think I missed why the titles are a is for...etc? Is this the alphabet cannon?? 😊

[@frocurl]

Nice!

[@helton3425]

does SCP-4266 have anything correlating to this?

[@connor_b152]

Pretty sure it's actually for Vendetta

[@duongngole4785]

ah man, i thought it's gonna be V for Vendetta

[@clayheinzerling1852]

How come these arent going up at 3?

[@abd-animation-22]

Violence 7-2 Light up the night sky

[@alastor8091]

Strange, considering empathy is oresent in humans because its a better survival strategy than being sociopathic. Takes me out of the SCP.

[@KainaX122]

It was really weird hearing human empathy being labeled as an anomaly, probably largely because I’ve very empathetic myself

[@gummyboots]

Is it? Most animals(not all) lack a significant amount of empathy. Even close genetic relatives like Mandrills are complete monsters.

[@KainaX122]

@@gummyboots yeah, but that’s not HUMAN empathy. I know there are plenty of places where empathy doesn’t exist in the animal kingdom - it would be detrimental to some animals - but human beings have their own evolutionary history that promotes some level of empathy us allow us to grow and thrive like we have - or at least I think so 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@zapan9643]

WE GROWING EYES ON THE INSIDE WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥

[@YippityDingleDoo]

me and the homies contorting in body horror 💯 just chillin

[@allshalo]

Impressive.

[@Javier-rm6ql]

It is not new? I remember that SCP 2000 said that humanity had been altered to be less violent and agressive too.

[@dreamingwolf8382]

I have a hard time picturing Any form of civilization even being created, let alone progressing into an indusrtrial scale, without Some empathy. It just doesn't seem likely that the cooperation necessary to build a society could take place without empathy- if everyone is "out for themselves" what is the impetus to work together at all? Suvival for survival's sake isn't going to lead to any long term collaboration, and pack mentality has to work from a foundation of trust. which to a degree, requires empathy, or an approximation of it.

[@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN]

The first people who ever had any drive that resembled the drives that are created by having anything resembling empathy, would instantly have massive advantages over folks who didn't. Any number of people working together have an advantage over people who are just out for themselves, even considerably weaker people, have a huge advantage over stronger people, just by working together. I also don't think we'd have evolved into being anything like what we are, if we were not social beings with empathy. This SCP just doesn't do it for me on any level. Isn't an interesting thought to manipulate or anything, I don't know what the author was aiming for, but I think they had a mark, and missed it.

[@saucevc8353]

Some people would eventually figure out that working together would be more productive than being alone. It’d take a lot longer, but it’d happen eventually. It’s not like society was really THAT dependent on empathy after the Stone Age, its not like workers needed to care about their bosses or slaves cared about their masters as long as they were fed and weren’t punished.

[@Dhairyasheel192]

V is for Vincent/Valerie 😎🌃

[@raistlinmajere5550]

I mean as a species we would get a shitload more done

[@Blake.Likes.Spiders]

I thought it was for vendetta