Empathy is a harder thing to understand for some people than others. Empathy is commonly switched with sympathy, which they have different meanings. Paul Bloom, a psychologist and professor at Yale, is writing a book against empathy. Do you think empathy is a bad thing or a good thing? People will always have different opinions and viewpoints on this topic like most other things. I am here to tell you why I think why empathy is good but also bad to some extent. I am supposed to stand for or against empathy but I can’t decide on one because in some areas it is a good thing but in others it is not. Here are two people who are on different opinions of empathy. George Saunders stands for empathy and says that it is a good thing. He has written
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How does Bloom think that empathy is bad when we are able to feel for others on a psychological level? Also, it is our empathy towards other people in other parts of the world explains why people help in emergency situations. For example, hurricane Catrina and everything that has happened to Haiti. Aid relief organizations joined together to help with the after math of these catastrophes. Countries will also join together to help other countries when they are in need. Catastrophes bring people of all ethnicities and backgrounds together to help toward one common goal. To help those in suffering. If we change our perspective on those who are hurting, we will feel closely to the …show more content…
War brings out the good and bad side of empathy. Empathy can be good when it comes to not killing civilians like the U.S. tries to do. When I said that Russia doesn’t really care, they are turning off empathy and getting the job done in their opinion. If you have empathy for the small things then it gets in the way of the bigger picture. For a lot of countries if you show empathy toward your soldiers and their families and try to get everyone home is weak. A lot of countries don’t care how many soldiers die in time of war as long as they win in the end everything is fine. For example, Russia and Japan during the Second World War. It seems like I am picking on Russia a bit but I am not, they are just a good example when it comes to being against empathy in my
How does Bloom think that empathy is bad when we are able to feel for others on a psychological level? Also, it is our empathy towards other people in other parts of the world explains why people help in emergency situations. For example, hurricane Catrina and everything that has happened to Haiti. Aid relief organizations joined together to help with the after math of these catastrophes. Countries will also join together to help other countries when they are in need. Catastrophes bring people of all ethnicities and backgrounds together to help toward one common goal. To help those in suffering. If we change our perspective on those who are hurting, we will feel closely to the …show more content…
War brings out the good and bad side of empathy. Empathy can be good when it comes to not killing civilians like the U.S. tries to do. When I said that Russia doesn’t really care, they are turning off empathy and getting the job done in their opinion. If you have empathy for the small things then it gets in the way of the bigger picture. For a lot of countries if you show empathy toward your soldiers and their families and try to get everyone home is weak. A lot of countries don’t care how many soldiers die in time of war as long as they win in the end everything is fine. For example, Russia and Japan during the Second World War. It seems like I am picking on Russia a bit but I am not, they are just a good example when it comes to being against empathy in my