So you believe that the sympathy is on and *then* you mark someone as alien and turn it off? Seems rather… optimistic. Both cynical and optimistic—so professor Quirrel’s level of optimistic, if you pardon me for stealing your own character. (Just a comparison, not generalizing from fictional evidence. Obviously.)
Why not “sympathy is defined as “feeling good for a non-alien” so you have to explicitly mark someone as a non-alien (also called “imagine yourself in their place”) to sympathize”?
So you believe that the sympathy is on and *then* you mark someone as alien and turn it off? Seems rather… optimistic. Both cynical and optimistic—so professor Quirrel’s level of optimistic, if you pardon me for stealing your own character. (Just a comparison, not generalizing from fictional evidence. Obviously.)
Why not “sympathy is defined as “feeling good for a non-alien” so you have to explicitly mark someone as a non-alien (also called “imagine yourself in their place”) to sympathize”?