Thanks for the TLDR - I was struggling with the low contrast, given the verbosity and the long time coming to the point.

Thanks for the TLDR - I was struggling with the low contrast, given the verbosity and the long time coming to the point. I was getting the sense that the author had decided to use a twisted definition of empathy, and came to a series of faulty conclusions because of that. At the start, the author says "When I say empathy, I mean sympathy", in which case... the term "sympathy" should be used. In my experience, people don't use them interchangably; sympathy is feeling sorry or happy for someone, empathy is understanding where (and why) that person is coming from. Or at least, trying to. I got through a third of the article and it really started shaping up as "I don't like sympathy" rather than empathy; starting from faulty premises, the author gets to have his 'shock value' statement, but it's not accurate.

Posted by vacri on Oct 2, 2014, 9:56 PM

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