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.
1. Compassion is caused by the recognition of a shared purpose in the relation to avoiding suffering. 2. Not sure how pleasure (not indifference!) would be derived from suffering of others without the ability to experience it somehow.
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I think seeing/imagining the person falter by your act is enough to arouse pleasure in onself. Ofcourse empathy might give a more amplified response.
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