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To: Borges
I believe that empathy is the highest human quality, ...

I don't. I believe that, if there's a good outcome, it can be achieved through the use of icy cold reason more easily than it can be achieved with empathy.

If you'd like to get in an exchange with me on this subject, using evidence, you know where I am.

2 posted on 05/12/2016 6:18:05 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("We like us the way we are. That makes us real, true friends." ~ The Undead Thread)
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To: Tax-chick

Love and empathy are different.

Love - impersonal love and appreciation of others, including recognition of the human condition that we share with them, wishing the best for them, forgiveness of their failings as we would like to be forgiven for ours: these constitute the highest and most powerful human qualities.

-JT


14 posted on 05/12/2016 6:34:33 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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