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Do you feel less instinctive empathy for people who are very unattractive? Not including people you know personally, but faint acquaintances or "people on the news" do count.

Yes, significantly less
19.7%
Yes, slightly less
38.3%
No difference
22.5%
More empathy, actually
19.5%

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

I mean 'instinctive' as in 'initial' or 'automatic.' The empathy you get by taking time to think about the person's life as unattractive doesn't count.

2:08 AM · Oct 13, 2019

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Alexander InvalidValue Cadeyrn

@InvalidDefiant

Oct 13, 2019

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@Aella_Girl

I voted too quick and now I wonder if perhaps the way I read the option I picked might not be the way you intended it to be read. In that case, it might be honest and still misleading. How do you define 'empathy' in this context? And attractiveness?

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Empathy for their being unattractive generally? Bc otherwise it’s hard to think of whether or not I’m empathetic without being tied to a specific situation. Or maybe that’s just me.

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I don’t think it’s related to their attractiveness and I can’t really do the integral in my head. Obviously it’s not the same for everyone i see but attractiveness doesn’t move it. What answer is that?

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By this do you mean- "before you have the time to factor in the inherent disadvantage they started off with" ? Cause thats often automatic for me