"Empathy produces data on what it is like to be other people": Good review of "Against Empathy"; I want to read it --https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/empathy-probably-a-good-thing …
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Aha, thank you for the warning!
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Bloom’s position is genuinely interesting and worth taking seriously. I think his argument contains valuable counterintuitive moral insights
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What did you like about his argument? I wondered whether he was channeling some of Paul Slovic's thinking on "psychic numbing" ...
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... i.e. the problems created by our ability to deeply empathize with one person's story/situation, but our difficulty to do so for ...
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... large groups of people.
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Of all the observations about empathetic engagement, Slovic's have struck me as the most troubling and challenging.
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It's not that Slovic suggests striving for empathy is wrong or misguided, but that it often has trouble dealing with large numbers of people
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I've sometimes thought we should be talking as much about "imagination", in the Northrop Frye sense; a trainable, sharpenable skill.
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