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Why would compassion be better than empathy?
empathy is a double edge sword, often causing more suffering than not. empathy has no morals.
compassion is love without conditions. compassion does not require feeling what others are feeling in order to understand their suffering.
compassion is the goal, empathy is the shitty tool that sometimes achieves the goal.
This makes no sense. People have moral systems, empathy is often a component of that.
No it isn't. Compassion is about sympathy and pity, and also is without morals. Unconditional love isn't a thing, and people can act compassionately without loving someone. It also doesn't require understanding which is vital to resolution.
Empathy doesn't require you to feel their suffering, but to simply understand and appreciate it.
Not my goal, seems shitty. Empathy appears to be superior.
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