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What is empathy?

How can I develop empathy?
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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
Ability to understand and feel emotions of others and have compassion. It's normally contextual and conditional though. For most it depends on their moral values, personal bias etc., so for example they don't have compassion for someone they see as evil or not important enough. You can test how people feel when you show them some movie scene where a group of people beat up a person without any context and then reveal it's some major POS abuser.

As for not important enough - it's usually some emotional fatigue. The wars happening on the other side of the world. The news blandly announcing deaths of children every day. People are like: 😐 But select a group of few, give them names, tell their stories, put sad emotional music in the background and everyone will be like: 😭 and 😡

I don't know if it's possible to develop it.