The Importance of Empathy

David Frum: We have the capacity to feel someone else's pain in different ways depending on whether they're a member of our tribe or not. He says we can increase our awareness of our own internal thought patterns so that we recognize our partisanship as we experience it. Frum: Tribal tendencies of humans, this can incite murder and torture from Spanish Inquisition to Rwandan genocide.

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