Empathy is an emotional response people have to someone or something. It is an internal (to the person experiencing it) phenomenon. Feeling empathy does not r

Empathy is an emotional response people have to someone or something. It is an internal (to the person experiencing it) phenomenon. Feeling empathy does not require the object of the empathy to be intelligent, have emotions, or even thoughts. And it does not require the person experiencing it to believe that the object has the attributes, it does not require anthropomorphizing. People feel empathy towards all sorts of people, things, and groups.