Empathy is not the opposite of bullying and being mean. In fact, empathy really helps if you want to be good at it. Empathy is not the same thing as compassion.
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1. Does it mean compassion is an automated response(not evaluating mental states)? 2. Can empathetic people can be sadistic? Could you please explain?
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1. Compassion is a state of caring about others. It does not have to be automatic. 2. If a sadistic person has no empathy (i.e. can only recognize/infer but not experience the mental states of others), they won't get much pleasure out of inflicting pain on others.
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