The moral duty to give a shit abt others doesn't depend on understanding their feelings (empathy) or actually sharing them (sympathy)
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I mean I think you should try to understand others to the extent that you are able (empathy) but it's a limited capacity in all of us
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yeah, people try to separate intellectual understanding with the "instinctive" understanding we call "empathy"
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I'm skeptical of how well the latter actually works
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for me that's a very intellectualized process though, "natural" empathy tends to cut the opposite direction
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right, but if I have a relationship with someone whom I don't understand I can still sympathize and want them to be happy
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