re: How empathetic do you think you are?

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whatever definitions we're using, i think for this emotion to be meaningful/productive in any way, it must involve more than just feeling bad for someone/thing. i feel bad for the roach i squash in the kitchen, and i don't want to be squashed myself, but that doesn't keep me from destroying the MF'er every time.

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I agree, and that's why I didn't include feeling bad for something in that definition.

I feel as if this is going to be spun into foreign policy very fast


eta: I'm empathetic with the African-American race for the evils of slavery, but I don't feel bad because their own people sold them into it, and not a single person on this planet is within 2 generations of someone who even knew someone who was a slave.