>We all live in the same world and it’s everyone’s responsibility to realize that and our impact on those around us as well as our environment.
It is physically impossible to be aware of the entirety of one's impact on others. One might be able to dimly perceive how the person across from you is feeling about something you said or did, but even in simple one to one interactions, there's frequent miscommunication and signal loss. If you extend this to making decisions that have an impact on not just one but hundreds or thousands of people, it's literally impossible to know the true impact of all those decisions on all those people. Good decision makers will intentionally cultivate information flows that provide them some insight but those are themselves imperfect.
And bad decision makers won't even try, and might attack the people who try to do it for them. And there are a shitload of bad decision makers. And I don't owe them anything.
You're passing over the key word "entirety." It is beyond our ability to understand the entirety of how our actions affect our own individual selves. How can we understand the entirety of how our actions affect dozens, hundreds or thousands of people every day. I would not trust someone who thought they only needed a dash of empathy to have this much insight.
It is physically impossible to be aware of the entirety of one's impact on others. One might be able to dimly perceive how the person across from you is feeling about something you said or did, but even in simple one to one interactions, there's frequent miscommunication and signal loss. If you extend this to making decisions that have an impact on not just one but hundreds or thousands of people, it's literally impossible to know the true impact of all those decisions on all those people. Good decision makers will intentionally cultivate information flows that provide them some insight but those are themselves imperfect.