>So he positioned himself such that you can't say "he has no empathy", but he can still use "too much empathy" as a reason for anything?
In other words, he's not an absolutist, which seems fine.
>His recent comments against all DEI programs(while implementing his own DEI programs and being a DEI hire himself) seem to show that this is an exaggeration
Sounds like you're already convinced that he's a Bad Person, so anything he says is going to be further proof of that. Even if he said something utterly anodyne like "government should be smaller", you'd probably respond with "well given what he's doing at DOGE, that's obviously him saying that he wants to dismantle the federal government as we know it".
I don't know what "Bad Person" means, I was just pointing out the ridiculousness of saying "he only wants to get rid of empathy in the extreme when it leads to (essentially) suicide" when he's actively working to dismantle programs that benefit the economy just because he perceives them as having some modicum of "empathy" related to them.
I'm also not sure what your comment about DOGE is trying to say. He has commented many times on wanting smaller government, and is working actively to achieve that with DOGE. What am I missing there?
In other words, he's not an absolutist, which seems fine.
>His recent comments against all DEI programs(while implementing his own DEI programs and being a DEI hire himself) seem to show that this is an exaggeration
Sounds like you're already convinced that he's a Bad Person, so anything he says is going to be further proof of that. Even if he said something utterly anodyne like "government should be smaller", you'd probably respond with "well given what he's doing at DOGE, that's obviously him saying that he wants to dismantle the federal government as we know it".