Are there any cases in larger scale systems (politics, social systems, moral ideas) in which too much empathy is a bad thing?
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Yes and no. I can empathize with someone who is about to jump off a bridge, but if I act on that empathy I could be pulled over.
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If 'empathy' means understanding other's feelings, no. But if you mean sympathizing, or giving too much weight to individual feelings, yes.
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It's more of a balance of empathy and logic. You can have vast empathy if you apply it with sufficient logic
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