Empathy is the capacity to

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other person’s frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another’s position.

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yes, and it’s also largely toilet paper since it doesn’t make the other person’s actions any more tolerable. it just helps you formulate a better response to them.

I thought it was the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

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Is the toilet paper to wipe one owns ass, or to wipe the person you empathize with?

i write poems about empathy, pedro

I have more emotional empathy than cognitive empathy.

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