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Understanding Evil & How the Bicycle Transformed the World

Something You Should Know

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What Is Emotional Empathy?

Inor: Evil doesn't really help us to answer that question. When people act with cruelty it's because their empathy is in some way impaired, affected. And when they act with kindness, it's because they are using their empathy. I argue that empathy is actually a more useful concept than evil to understand both cruelty and kindness. Inor: If i lack ampathy, or something's not going right in my head with empathy, so that i'm not able to put myself in your shoes,. Doesn't necessarily mean i'm going to be cruel to you, though. But what ampathy does is it puts the breaks on our behaviour. It stops us hurting othersby making us think

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