The Big Picture: Empathy deficit or surplus, like behaviour, is a CLOUD, not a CLOCK.

The Big Picture:

Empathy deficit or surplus, like behaviour, 

is a CLOUD, 

not a CLOCK.  

Question:

The question about mixed public reactions and views about the Ukraine war in Singapore cannot be a straightforward and simple conclusion. 

Answer:

The quality of leaders has decisive influence over the problem.  Whether he or she looks at the big picture, what is good and bad for the country.

 

Explanations:

Mixed opinions do show our thinking and behaviour are based on clouds, not clocks. A simple clock logic will provide a clear cut empathy deficit or surplus.    

{...Karl Popper, the great philosopher of science, once divided the world into two categories: clocks and clouds. Clocks are neat, orderly systems that can be solved through reduction; clouds are an epistemic mess, “highly irregular, disorderly, and more or less unpredictable.” The mistake of modern science is to pretend that everything is a clock, which is why we get seduced again and again by the false promises of brain scanners and gene sequencers. We want to believe we will understand nature if we find the exact right tool to cut its joints. But that approach is doomed to failure. We live in a universe not of clocks but of clouds.}

https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/06/clouds-not-clocks/185941/}