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This is a really good point. Empathy can be applied to judging moral crimes such as stealing food becuase you are starving. Although anctedotally I find that pe
by awat 8y ago
This is a really good point. Empathy can be applied to judging moral crimes such as stealing food becuase you are starving. Although anctedotally I find that people who come from the exact background/situation tend to have less empathy even though they understand the context more.
- slavik81 8y agoYour experience seems to match the research. People who faced a challenge and succeeded in overcoming it tended to judge people who failed more harshly, but tended to judge people who succeeded more favourably. https://hbr.org/2015/10/its-harder-to-empathize-with-people-if-youve-been-in-their-shoes https://hbr.org/2015/10/its-harder-to-empathize-with-people-...
- amag 8y agoThat makes sense because of the "if I did it, you should be able to"-fallacy that fails to take into account that people are different, even coming from identical backgrounds.