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It's interesting how people on Substack are significantly less rude and hostile than all of the other social media platforms, it's almost as if people who still read are also preserving a sense of empathy and humanity within them, too
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I'm writing a second comment since it's unrelated to the first (below). Back in the day when I got my Psy.D. (aeons ago, as I'm Bob's age), what we now call cognitive empathy was called cognitive perspective taking, and empathy was reserved for those who actually felt others' emotions (e.g., cried at movies, etc.). Back then, it was thought that people with autism had a lack of cognitive perspective taking because they lacked a "theory of mind." We now know that many of these findings were due …
Cognitive empathy without emotional empathy doesn't always produce manipulative narcissism. In a non-zero-sum situation, cognitive empathy (without emotional empathy) can make it more likely that even purely selfish actors will do things that benefit the other actor, because the win-win outcome is the most self-interested outcome, and cognitive empathy can help get to the win-win outcome. And there are *lots* of non-zero-sum situations that people and groups (including nations) fail to play to a win-win outcome, even though win-win would be better for them--and not infrequently, one cause of this failure is a failure to exercise cognitive empathy.