Hugh Hewitt

12-11-2014:

Hugh this evening explained that we sympathize with others due to their loss, misfortune, ill health, etc. He advised that empathy is a deeper more difficult undertaking. It is not just emotionally merciful, but is more thoughtful and intellectual. One begins to understand the victim or person being emphasized with.

I would recommend that individualists generally are more sympathetic and more empathetic than are collectivists, unless that collectivist is heroically self-sacrificing like a Mother Teresa saint.