Also it doesn't quite work. I can try to feel what others feel emotionally & still decide that compassion is not the right response
In conversations online. I tend to talk abt talking, finding common ground, understanding ppl, being charitable but also critical.
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In short, I talk a lot abt trying to understand other people's motivations & feelings & then working with them to resolve things.
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This is empathy first, really getting it, and then trying to work out how to find solutions using principles & reason.
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Recently, ppl are disparaging of the empathy bit, implying it lacks reason & principles as tho these things cannot work together.
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As tho we can somehow be compassionate & reasonable in finding solutions to problems based in emotions w/out understanding emotions
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