empathy

Empathy prompt response

Here is C’s response to the latest prompt: “Can you truly understand someone whose suffering you’ve never experienced, or is empathy always a kind of fiction? Besides the fact that I don’t think you can ever truly understand someone else, I don’t think shared experience is necessary for the empathy you feel towards someone. NoContinue reading “Empathy prompt response”

Empathy prompt response

Here is Emily’s response to the latest prompt: “Can you truly understand someone whose suffering you’ve never experienced, or is empathy always a kind of fiction?” Empathy is defined as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another” and it’s worth distinguishing this from sympathy, which is simply feeling pity or sorrow forContinue reading “Empathy prompt response”

Hello all, here is my response to the 2nd prompt. “Can you truly understand someone whose suffering you’ve never experienced, or is empathy always a kind of fiction?” I don’t know if there is a definite link between the experiences you have and how much empathy you feel for others. I know that for me,Continue reading “Empathy”