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+====== Empathy ======
+https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/04/whats-wrong-with-sentimentality/360355\\
+In the aforementioned article, I feel something basic is overlooked.  Empathy is instinctive and not something you have to work at.  If you have the empathy instinct, life often requires the opposite: as there are times you have to work at not having it.
+For example, when someone gets stuck by a needle, your reaction is to flinch, and you feel the unpleasantness yourself.  If you have too much empathy, then it can hamper your ability to be a medical surgeon, unless you learn the ability to turn off the instinct.  The same with being a mental health therapist; if your clients are in pain you will be distressed as well.  Unless your empathy instinct is low or missing altogether.
+Another question to ask, is, do you have empathy for all persons, or only those you admire or look up to?
+“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”  - Malcolm S. Forbes

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