What would happen if a person's empathy caused physical pain and pleasure?

Question

I've been mulling this over for a while, and so far, I've only come up with two outcomes:

1) The person becomes altruistic, but might create a bad outcome since what pleases another person now will cause them grief later (like breaking up with someone, would you rather be hurt now or wake up 6 months later knowing the relationship is doomed?)

2) The person is so worried about hurting and pleasing others they eventually do nothing since that won't affect others badly.

If you can come up with something else, I'd really like to hear it.

To elaborate, I meant the person's empathy gives physical pain when they cause pain to others, and physical pleasure when they please others. I thought of it as a cure to hedonism, but I also wanted to see what other oucomes would result from the scenario.

Congrats to voodoid, the first person to say something that even remotely sounds like s/he actually looked at the question!!! I'm going to wait a while, and if I keep getting bad answers, I might just delete this.

Answer 1

Well, like any power, there is always the potential for abuse. I think it depends on the person how it would be used.

Answer 2

nicely, i won't be ready to remember ever seeing my dad cry and that i don't have a husband yet ( i'm 15 lol ) yet i will remember a pair of events the place I even have seen my 20 12 months previous brother cry simply by actual soreness. First one: - He grew to become into 19 on the time. His girlfriends now 15 weeks pregnant so luckily there grew to become into no everlasting harm. - He cried like crybaby ! i do no longer think of i've got ever seen him cry lots. It grew to become into frightening. - I by possibility kneed him interior the balls. ( We have been play battling on his mattress, long tale lol ) - Yeah. there have been various witnesses. We the two had friends around on the time. - No. 2nd time: - 20 ( It grew to become into this 12 months ) None of his injuries have been somewhat extreme, besides the shown fact that he does have some everlasting reminders such because of the fact the bump on his nostril and the scar via his eyebrow. - basically tears. - He took some painful pictures in a boxing tournament. ( he's a boxer ) - No. even however he grew to become into in soreness he grew to become into too happy to be humiliated. He gained the combat. - No.

Answer 3

You take the bad with the good, that is life. Now if you know how to avoid it then, please share your secert. Oh, I got it, you have to not have a heart, because that causes you to be empathic and care about someone else, or maybe your heart is all frozen so you can't feel anything, in turn you are just rude to everyone and they are rude to you.

Answer 4

sometimes courage is required ,lay out the facts on the table ,maybe they feel the same way about you ,the truth is usually somewheres in between both sides of a story, one cannot think his way out of most situations there are spiritual things happening you cant see

Answer 5

in philo which is quest for wonders, physical pain and pleasure cannot happen at the same time. it is either but not both