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Humans Say They Want Empathy

Can too much Empathy ruin Society?

Logic vs. Emotion: Technological Uprising No One Expected

4 min readMar 20, 2025

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Humans are usually the ones stirring up trouble in the first place. If we genuinely want a world where everything is perfect — a world where no one struggles, where everyone has what they need, where people have the freedom to pursue their passions and spend meaningful time with loved ones — we’ve got some serious work to do on ourselves. If not in 2111, the world will be ruled by AI. Not because humans had lost a war against the machines, but because they had outsourced governing to them out of sheer exhaustion. Political debates had become so unbearable that society collectively threw its hands up and said, “Fine! Let the robots deal with it.”

And so, they did.

An assembly of hyper-intelligent, data-driven beings worked tirelessly to create the most efficient and fair society possible. Every law, policy, and decision was made based on pure logic and a staggering amount of data. No more corruption, wars…

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Elisabeth Roberts
Elisabeth Roberts

Written by Elisabeth Roberts

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