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Everyday Philosophy: How much empathy is too much empathy?
- Let’s say someone has both a high-functioning theory of mind and an overflowing well of compassion. What then? Well, this is what Hoffman calls “empathic over-arousal.” A person will feel so worn down by the intensity of other people’s emotions that it wears them down — it turns their distress into my actual distress. This might not seem like a bad... See more
from Everyday Philosophy: How much empathy is too much empathy? by Jonny Thomson
Laura Pike Seeley added 2mo ago