I'm skeptical about empathy. — Tom Storm
How, for instance can someone without children understand what it is like to lose a child? — Tom Storm
Pessimism seems a pretty easy, even tidy solution to the world's problems. If you can put all things into the basket of 'everything's fucked' one doesn't have to think much further. — Tom Storm
It's fairly easy to empathise with another. I don't think sympathy arises out of nowhere. — Shawn
Yes, well isn't it derived from a sense of compassion, or a strong sense of empathy towards others? — Shawn
Buddha wouldn't have been Buddha and neither would Schopenhauer been Schopenhauer without a strong sense of identity derived from the suffering of others, yes? — Shawn
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