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"If you put yourself in someone else’s shoes but don’t take the extra step of sharing their feelings or comprehending their struggle, then politically your stan
by randomcarbloke 3y ago
"If you put yourself in someone else’s shoes but don’t take the extra step of sharing their feelings or comprehending their struggle, then politically your stance risks being not just jejune but counterproductive."
On the contrary I think it just underlines the futility of empathy, we can never truly imagine ourselves in another's shoes.
- DarkNova6 3y agoEmpathy is not binary. Sure you can never simulate the rationale that goes through somebody’s mind. But there are different types of empathy (cognitive, compassionate, …) some of which are more closely aligned with what most associate with this term. Most of all a lack of empathy and good will is a good sign that you keep this person at a distance. I know I‘ve had my share with cluster B personality disorders.
- DiscourseFan 3y ago>Most of all a lack of empathy and good will is a good sign that you keep this person at a distance I don't think that's true, really. I mean, you might be indifferent to a given person who you've never met, but to some extent its impossible to have no feelings about someone who in some way has come into contact with you, and I would say that the more intensely you have feelings for them, either attractive or repulsive, the more you have an imagined identification, which can either be one of a sublimated erotic narcissistic attachment (empathy), or one that is destructive (removal, death and replacement), in the latter case always as a defence mechanism in the same way as repression (recall the old "fort, da" story).