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Empathy......The missing ingredient

Submitted by Bent II on Sun, 03/16/2008 - 05:26.

Empathy (also known as pathos): To paraphrase the definition, it is the ability to feel what others feel. The ability to place yourself in another's shoes, if only for a moment. Whether this person is right or wrong, to gain insight to their feelings. Most people have this ability in varying degrees, and some, sadly, are not capapble of it at all. They are usually serial killers and are at the far end of the spectrum and rare.

Disreagrad: to treat without due regard, respect, or attentiveness; slight: to disregard,lack of regard or attention; neglect.


What would you do??

Submitted by Bent II on Sun, 03/16/2008 - 06:17.

If you saw a bully in action each day, bringing people to tears of frustration and hopelessness, crushing their spirit and sucking their self worth away, would you step up? And if you too, were also in that very same position in the past but had managed to escape it?