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Originally posted by Rudey
Your listing the definitions of empathy and sympathy had what to do with a point exactly?
1 a : an affinity, association, or relationship between persons or things wherein whatever affects one similarly affects the other.
These two statements qualify as sympathy. One can possibly say empathy if you could see yourself killing or having killed a white person:
"I understand his desperation and where he's coming from"
"Many of these things have happened to me, and lots of other minorities in this country...I do understand his sense of frustration in a world that treats many people as second class citizens."
-Rudey
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Outside of the sympathy/empathy discussion, what is it that you're disagreeing with? Are you saying that it is wrong to "see where someone is coming from" while at the same time knowing that person's actions are 100% wrong and punishable?
I get how a person would have the attitude that someone who is bad should not be afforded any level of sympathy/empathy (I'm not trying to get into that!!). But, there are those out there in the world who have an understanding of that bad person's motives while not condoning them at all. Wouldn't you say?
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