Re: Empathy

--- In [email protected], Elliot Temple <curi@...> wrote:
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> On Dec 16, 2012, at 11:15 AM, hibbsa <asbbih@...> wrote:
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> > Something that might be helpful to a discussion about empathy would be
> > if particapants disclose whether they personally consistently experience
> > what they assume must be meant by 'empathy'. Not everyone does.
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> Stop trying to invade people's privacy.
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> -- Elliot Temple
> http://fallibleideas.com/
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Voluntary disclosure doesn't involve any kind of invasion that I can see. So the question would be the relevance/importance to the discussion of what is suggested.  
About that I would say that, if you don't experience the sensation of empathy, and never have...then you about as useful to people that do or have as a blind man is to a discussion about the visual sensation of colour.