>Empathy suggests something more technical — a dispassionate approach to understanding the emotions of others. And these days, it often seems to mean understand

>Empathy suggests something more technical — a dispassionate approach to understanding the emotions of others. And these days, it often seems to mean understanding their pain just enough to get something out of it — to manipulate political, technological and consumerist outcomes in our own favor. Suggestion for a new title: "How I Redefined the Meaning of Empathy and Wrote an Article About It"