There's no shortage of government officials who think they're being laudably tough while they smother human empathy. |
Do they visit in empathy, or is it something deep within the deepest well of their own ego that sends them on their mission? |
The therapist may offer the patient a combination of empathy and reality testing. |
I feel a real empathy for people who are sad, and so I relate to characters who are unhappy and dark. |
In his short fiction Man-Eating Cats, he describes an adulterous affair not in terms of mere love but as total and complete empathy. |
Yet I am not advocating a crass rationalism in which reverence, empathy and love have no place. |