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People keep mixing up empathy and sympathy and it’s one of my biggest pet peeves.
Empathy is the ability to take the perspective of another person and understand their emotional state. To put yourself into their shoes.
Sympathy is a feeling of compassion you have when you see someone else’s suffering.
Empathy can be part of sympathy but it can also have nothing to do with sympathy. Scammers, for example, use empathy to manipulate their victims by predicting how they will respond, based on their emotional state. Empathy is a skill with no moral content. How you use empathy determines whether it’s a good or bad act.