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The Limits of Sympathy: Relating to Images of Distress

December 1, 2018 by The IotL Magazine

The fear of witnessing the pain of others is caused by our empathy coupled with an intense feeling of powerlessness. And sympathy may even be a highly misleading path to trod on, if it does not encourage us to reflect on the reasons for horrors to occur.

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Filed Under: Long Read, More Isles of the Left, Society & Politics Tagged With: compassion, democracy, migration, sympathy

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