Two common and stupid ideas:
1: empathy is for bleeding-heart liberals who don't get reality
2: the world would improve with more empathy
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There is nothing dysfunctional about feeling empathy (duh). But it breaks down and becomes worse than useless past a few individuals.
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Mmh. People high in empathy can be quite insensitive, which makes sense: they take your suffering personally, so they make it about them.
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