{"id":51376,"date":"2015-06-05T17:54:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T17:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/05\/on-the-need-for-empathy.html"},"modified":"2015-06-05T17:54:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T17:54:37","slug":"on-the-need-for-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/05\/on-the-need-for-empathy.html","title":{"rendered":"On the need for empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amanda Palmer talks about the value, the need,<\/i> for radical empathy, of trying to understand, even when you don't condone; to have compassion for the person, even while disagreeing or condemning their actions.<\/p>\n

It's what that phrase "hate the sin, love the sinner" really means, even though it's rarely practiced by so many of the folk who actually use that phrase.<\/p>\n

Because where do you draw the line? If you can't bring yourself to wonder, to consider, how Hitler felt, or how he came to be the person he was and do the awful things he did … then where's the point short of him where you can? Who's not quite<\/i> bad enough to empathize with? Whose sins, misdeeds, unpleasant and disagreed-with actions is it okay to put up with in trying to understand them, to consider their perspective, to examine for echoes of your own feelings?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nAmanda Palmer: Playing the Hitler Card<\/a><\/span>
\nWe live in an age of endless, foaming outrage. The only answer is to try to feel empathy for other people, no matter who they are.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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