Celebrate, but don't try to give a psychologist a lesson in empathy vs sympathy. I deel with both on a daily basis and know the differnce between the two quite well. I never used the word sympathy nor did I try to compare it with the word empathy. I simply used the word empathy, correctly.
Why do you try to give a lesson using a strawman fallacy?
Please explain where the strawman lies in my comments. My posts attempted to create a dialogue regarding a claim that there is a moral obligation to have empathy when empathy cannot be obtained unless one first has a shared experience. Thus, I employed the correct term, sympathy, in place of the incorrect term empathy (except for those who have had that shared experience). I take issue that you used the word "empathy" correctly, as you did not.
By the way, a strawman fallacy requires that I create something that does not exist, and then attack that instead of the actual issue. Since I'm the one who introduced the term "sympathy" and never claimed that you did, there was no strawman in this discussion.
Now, to use the correct spelling (fingers sometimes move faster than eyes), Peace be upon you.