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"Are all actions in life based on interest only"?

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"Are all actions in life based on interest only"?
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RE: "Are all actions in life based on interest only"?
April 10, 2023 at 2:52 pm
I don’t think empathy is about abstractly reducing the negative. It is fundamentally about establishing or sustaining a norm of behavior that would increase the chance that others would help reduce the negative when the negative happens to oneself.
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RE: "Are all actions in life based on interest only"? - by Anomalocaris - April 10, 2023 at 2:52 pm

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