Can you get outside yorself to put yourself in another persons situation and imagine how they would or would not act/react to whatever?
When a hyothetical situation is given to you is it easy or is it hard to allow for that. What if that hypothetical situation completely contridicts your world view ? For instance you have always seen X as a good thing your family buit x a small shrine etc but this other person see's x as bad can you place yourself there and imagine x being bad or is that beyond you or at least hard?
Now if you said yes I can do all of that it's easy or yes but it's hard what happens to all those abilities if I put you under stress ?
Do you think empathy is an emotion or an intelectual process?
2006-10-01 21:18:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
No human being can claim being %100 'understanding' for the simple fact that we conceive everything through our own senses. But feeling other people's pain and sympathy depends on how much one can overcome selfishness. Empathy can be both emotional and intellectual as both are parts of our soul.
What the people of the world need now is to overcome borders, politicians, clergymen, militarymen and other leftovers of our primitive societies and become one.
2006-10-01 21:39:08 · answer #1 · answered by Pishisauraus 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's an emotion because I can typically know what everyone in a group around me is feeling and thinking. Maybe I'm processing a lot of data, but I've noticed this since I was young and have been so accurate, I tend to "translate" for people to a useful end. I don't think I knew enough to process it intellectually when I was still young.
Since I was a kid, also, strangers have spilled their guts to me. I know all about the cashier at the grocery store and my friend who goes through the same line never has had the cashier confide in her.
I think it's an emotion and not a thought process because in the months before my precious precious father died unexpectedly and suddenly, I began having a sense that dad was going to die, but kept repressing this information when it would bubble up to a degree that is still shocking and saddening to this moment. If it was an intellectual process, I think it would have been more resistant to the defense mechanisms, like denial, that stopped me from facing this painful intuition.
2006-10-01 21:25:58 · answer #2 · answered by t jefferson 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well.....let me know u something: 90% of the ppl i know hate me.why?beacause i always tell my point of view even if it bothers the other(politely of course i dont insult ppl unless the insult me).yes i had many problem because of this...teachers friends parents....but the other 10% i know that they like me for what i am and i can trust them with anything.empathy is more a subconstient feeling i'd say.yes it's related with the intellectual process....but not in that way.
my oppinion
2006-10-01 21:24:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i can see other's point of view ,even if they are narrowminded pin head republicans, i can see it and i hate what i see so a rarely go through that looking glass, no i think i'll just stay here and be completely right all on my own. in my little world i'm always right and it's much better here and anyone i let in to my world has to think like me too or get the hell out. oh no!!!! I'm becoming what i hate arghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-10-01 21:32:32 · answer #4 · answered by older_fat_male 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In matters of religion, yes I can see others point of views. In matters of common sense and reality, I tend to go with what I see, so no, it's harder to see the wrong point of view.
2006-10-01 21:30:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes try it
2006-10-01 21:21:09 · answer #6 · answered by GOOCH 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be yourself and do what is right.
2006-10-01 21:29:17 · answer #7 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes,yes, and its an emotion.
2006-10-01 21:20:48 · answer #8 · answered by Angel of Man 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋