Thread: Humans need to read to feel more empathy with others.
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Old 01-02-2012, 01:14 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Scott Nielsen View Post
But that is what empathy means. It mustn't be confused by equating it to sympathy.
I completely agree with you. My phrasing was clumsy. What I meant was that in today's overly-PC hyper-sensitive world, "empathy" is used as a synonym for sympathy, which in turn is used as a call for social justice, which in turn is now a synonym for confiscatory socialism.
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