Empathy is the ability to imagine the plight of another.
You'll no doubt note that most of the self proclaiming cons on this board display a complete lack of empthy.
Now whether these folks are just trying to sound like tough guys, or they're truly incapable of getting outside of their own shoes, is anyone's guess.
But one does frequently encounter people who are permanently stuck in their own heads who truly cannot remotely imagine another's POV, and almost without exception those types tend to be dogmatic cons.
Note, that I never mentioned Obama's health care? In fact, amigo, I am on record on this board as being in opposition to that policy.
You are PROJECTING, here sport.
Still projecting.
Now you're attempting to REWRITE my POV, too.
And that is what your are really after, not empathy. What you really want is for that empathy to translate into freely giving money to every poor soul you think deserves it.
I really struck a nerve didn't I?
You cannot even understand my POV when it is laid out for you in text.
Empathy is the ability to imagine the plight or POV of another...even if you DISAGREE with it.
What YOU just did was show us your near complete lack of EMPATHY.
Not only do you not understand words I wrote, but your lack of empathy forced you to INVENT what you imagine my POV is.
THANK YOU for completely proving my point, Bern.
Wrong ed. I am in complete agreement with the defintion of empathy you provided. And I understand your POV completely based on what you wrote. That it is mainly conservatives that lack empathy/ My point is the thing you claim the right lacks that you are calling empathy is not that at all. It isn't the right's lack of empathy you are concerned with, because frankly you can't possibly know how another person feels. That is all empathy is, a feeling. What the left seems to be upset about is a lack of an action that you are calling empathy. That action as far as I can tell is continuing to give the inept government money to fix social problems.
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