• GladiusB@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    You’re not getting not getting it. I can’t relate to sensations I cannot feel myself. My own sisters agree with me on this. The fact that you think I need to see it beyond that.

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        12 days ago

        Can you relate to missing a finger or having a plate in your arm? No. You can understand the mechanism of pain but you can’t truly relate.

        Regardless sympathy works too.

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          12 days ago

          Just not true.

          Its not that the arm is missing. Its how they feel. Loss, have you felt loss? Pain, have you felt pain? Despair?

          Sympathy means you feel bad that they feel despair. Empathy is you feel despair as if it were your despair.