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Sherma Erholm's avatar

Perhaps empathy rather than pity would lead to a truly constructive, rather than destructive, type of help for those in need of such.

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Birds Watch Me's avatar

This is a really nice distinction to consider, perhaps pity (at least as I try to articulate it here) can be defined as a kind of performative empathy?

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