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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

where people can only extend empathy as far as a situation that it's possible for them to get into.

I wonder if there is a distinguishing term for this.

Empathy = The ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes (no matter how different they are from you)

? = The “ability” to imagine yourself in a situation that someone else, who’s very similar to you, experienced.

[–] randombullet 1 points 1 day ago

Sympathy?

Compassion?

Eskimo brothers?