We may get exposed to the idea of Empathy through what it says in some religions that we must love our neighbor as ourselves, Empathy may be a life-time practice. Scientists in psychology may have done experiments and may have explained what empathy is, but true Empathy is at a deeper level than sympathy.
We may teach our children to say "I am sorry" if they have done something inappropriate or wrong, but they may grow up to go through life not feeling what others maybe going through by inappropriateness of our children's words, actions or attitudes...
Especially, in this Global-World people may READILY hurt one-another, just by inappropriate words that gets transmitted through a text on a phone, or Internet, and postings of a inappropriate picture or Video. The social media has detached people more and more from each other and reduced individuals reacting to one-another while they are behind their devices. Empathy takes TIME to develop as the result of individuals spending time with one-another to, be able to feel the feelings of each other. On the other hand, sympathy may be as quick as saying to someone "sorry" and move on!
We may examine that in this consumer-mentality society that we live in, are we creating products and tools that benefits OneAnother or one-better-than-the other? And we cannot teach others everything just by transmitting concepts and rules when it comes to these issues, but spending TIME for us to become AWARE what Empathy feels-like.....
It looks like we are not doing that
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