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empathy
trying to feel what the other feels -- on the same level
it's impossible to feel 100%, but it's possible to feel some
particularly if you have experienced similar
everyone is equal -- we should keep that in mind
posted by
Xeno-x
on January 12, 2005 at 2:35 PM
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JustA -
Thanks.
posted by
sannhet
on January 12, 2005 at 2:20 PM
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I tend to agree with your view on the different connotations.
posted by
justAcarpenter
on January 12, 2005 at 12:09 PM
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Friar -
Compassion, on the other hand, means to suffer with, to have empathy for. It puts both people on the same level, not one in superior position over the other.
posted by
sannhet
on January 12, 2005 at 8:37 AM
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Friar Tuck -
For me, they still have different connotations. Mercy still tends to be used in situations of one having power over another. When does one ask for mercy? When it a submissive position (being robbed, at gunpoint, a team winning and not running up the score). There still is the connotation of domination behind the word.
posted by
sannhet
on January 12, 2005 at 6:17 AM
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Sanhett
Aren't "mercy" and "compassion" synonimous even in English?
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on January 12, 2005 at 2:09 AM
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