The obvious phrase is “when I was in high school”. Most just grow out of it and have no need to mock people. You probably have grown out of it too.
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#13It’s okay to be indifferent, perhaps it’s natural for humans to be ruthless. If your friend is so self-absorbed as not to notice he is about to step into poop, then he will step in poop, just not while you’re around to smell it. Buddhists are the most indifferent yet compassionate people I know because compassion requires impeccable mental silence at all times, and after so many years you realize it really doesn’t ma…
I think you're going around in circles here, ethically. It's a lot of sentences to justify that you shouldn't care about other people because it's not your problem.
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#14Mockery in a friendly setting does not equal a lack of empathy. It reads like you're being too hard on yourself. What is the reason you feel bad about taste of mocking even in a friendly way?
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#15> It wasn't offensive and we knew each other's boundaries
Then what's the problem?
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#16Empathy growth is a side effect of a meditation. As a rule you do a meditation for some other reason, and you get more empathy as a bonus.