DO YOU SHOW SYMPATHY OR EMPATHY?
Empathy is often confused with pity, sympathy, and compassion, which are
each reactions to the plight of others. Pity is a feeling of discomfort
at the distress of one or more sentient beings, and often has
paternalistic or condescending overtones. Implicit in the notion of pity
is that its object does not deserve its plight, and, moreover, is
unable to prevent, reverse, or overturn it. Pity is less engaged than
empathy, sympathy, or compassion, amounting to little more than a
conscious acknowledgement of the plight of its object.
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