The Morality of Empathy
Moral Maze
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Empathy Is a Morality, Not a Politics
"I think there's a common perception that empathy is much like ebenezer scrooge waking up on christmas morning and suddenly realizing that all of these strangers with whom hes before had absolutely a common community of emotion, have feelings and thoughts. But what the er clinical, so the social psychology experiments tend to show is that theactually already confirms us in prejudices that we already have," he says. "You will tend to be more likely to empathize with people who are either like you or share the same beliefs that you do."
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