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#56 — Abusing Dolores

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Ampathy vs Compassion

The feeling of compassion is really exquisitely pleasurable. It is what love feels like in the presence of suffering. The fact that ampathy and compassion are used for the most part as synonyms n our culture is deeply confusing about what normative human psychology promises. I think we make sense of this by saying that there's separabe, at least two processes that lead to kindness and good behaviour that can and one of them empathy has some serious problems. If we could nurture compassion, we not only can make the world a better place, but we we could enjoy ourselves w while doing it.

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