Destroying both the Middle East and Europe
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Huh? You're thinking of empathy. You empathize with someone when you've felt the same emotion before.
This is the wrong place to lodge reddit objections to semantics. Having said that, I don't think they're terrible people.
I wouldn't have smashed the greenhouses the Israelis left behind in Gaza.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/sympathy-empathy-difference
Did a diversity hire do that writeup for Merriam Webster? Their own supporting examples don't make sense:
Surely the humanitarians aren't expected to "share" the feelings of the strangers they're helping?
If "sympathy" is already feeling what other people feel, why is "understanding" them separate?
Sympathy is, put bluntly, feeling sorry for people.
Ya everywhere i looked is pretty wishy washy. And with dictionaries being re written it's hard to even link one in good faith. My understanding is that sympathy is shared feeling, empathy is being able to understand how someone feels.