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The new 10 commandments | Massimo Pigliucci, Simon Baron-Cohen, Sophie Grace Chapel

Philosophy For Our Times

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The Importance of Empathy

Empathy is all about being able to imagine someone else's thoughts and feelings, but also having an appropriate emotional response. Sometimes we tell lies to not hurt another person's feelings. We don't have to try to cheat us or whatever. But the general kind of way of operating, which is to rely on our empathy seems to be quite a useful one in many situations that we've described.

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