What's Wrong with Empathy


- Emphatic Vision, Jill Benett, p. 21 - "failure of the 1st world to think outside itself - to understand it's difference from other places"

- Emphatic Vision, Jill Benett, p. 111 - "'crude empathy' - can't wonder or understand, What if that happened to me" - moral problem - can't own another's experience - you need to respect the difference!

- Daedalus: Introduction - Social Suffering, Vol. 125, No. 1, pg. XIII - to be in pain is to hold a special knowledge.
o Ignorance of imaging another's pain is not the same as acknowledging the pain
o XVI - "massive social suffering does not lend itself to rescue or remedy"

- Beyond Empathy, Janet Clark, U of T paper, pg 1. - empathy is "presumptuous"
o Pg. 2 - "vastly different experiences" - empathy is not relevant in the context of diversity"
o Pg. 10 - "traditional vs. reconceptualized" empathy"

- Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag, p. 8 - "Our failure is one of imagination, of empathy. We have failed to hold this reality in mind."

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