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The Empathy Wars, March 17, 2021, Introduction, and a somewhat odd turn of events, a controversy

is recently broken out over the relative merits of sympathy and empathy, but if you drill

down into the discussion, you will quickly discover that it is not necessarily a fracas

over a bunch of nothing, but rather some significant issues really are at stake, or depending

on the definitions you're using, some really significant issues could be at stake.

At the same time, I think we all have to grant that having a hot controversy over something

like this is kind of funny.

I mean, look at us Christians colliding over whether empathy is a sin, or whether sympathy

is, with hearty blasphemers maintaining whatever the contrary position might be.

And being kind of funny in that particular way, it did occur to me that I might want

to roll up my sleeves, spit on my hands, and have a merry little time with all of this.

This is the kind of thing that makes me want to lay about me with a quarter staff, and

in a manner that is off-putting to some.

But I hasten to add that I resisted that particular temptation manfully, I only bring

it up so that you might extend your sympathy to me, or empathy, whatever would be most

suitable.

One time Gibbon made fun of the ancient Christians for their controversy over Hama-Usea

and Hama-Usea, as though the debate over the deity of Christ were actually only about

the letter Yoda.

But this is like thinking the contest between theism and atheism is somehow a debate over

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