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Re:Concerned about veteran with PTSD, judge serves time with... by pessimizer on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:34PM (#11552011)
No, it's not. It's sympathy. Empathy involves a bit of imagination that most people lack.

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"Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another being (a human or non-human animal) is experiencing from within the other being's frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another's position."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy

It's just the way that these words happen to be defined in English. They stand for different, but related concepts.

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Re:Concerned about veteran with PTSD, judge serves time with... by Cuuugi on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:51PM (#11552121)
You don't know the judges experience, or life, which makes your point impossible to prove.

Why are you being so combative?

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Re:Concerned about veteran with PTSD, judge serves time with... by civilian on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:55PM (#11552149)
It's because he's better at empathy than us. :)
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Re:Concerned about veteran with PTSD, judge serves time with... by pessimizer on Friday April 22, 2016 @04:03PM (#11552198)
Your argument is with English, not me.
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Re:Concerned about veteran with PTSD, judge serves time with... by saalweachter on Friday April 22, 2016 @06:59PM (#11553115)
Our argument is with your specific views on the meaning of words.

Other sources[1] define empathy as "feeling what another person feels" and sympathy as "having compassion for a person without necessarily feeling what they feel". In that case, the judge is clearly empathizing with the defendant, and not merely sympathizing.

[1] http://grammarist.com/usage/empathy-sympathy/

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Re:Concerned about veteran with PTSD, judge serves time with... by derrida on Friday April 22, 2016 @05:23PM (#11552647)
Can you see any dramatic irony here?

People use words in a variety of ways - communication: a search for a language that is also yours!

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Re:Concerned about veteran with PTSD, judge serves time with... by tlrobinson on Friday April 22, 2016 @05:24PM (#11552655)
Their username may contain a hint...
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Re:Concerned about veteran with PTSD, judge serves time with... by pessimizer on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:57PM (#11552165)
Ascribing my disagreement to "combativeness" is both combative and presumptive. I've said exactly what I meant, and why.
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Re:Concerned about veteran with PTSD, judge serves time with... by abiox on Friday April 22, 2016 @07:44PM (#11553333)
is the act of describing something as combative itself a combative thing?
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Re:Concerned about veteran with PTSD, judge serves time with... by pessimizer on Friday April 22, 2016 @10:05PM (#11553780)
It is.
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Re:Concerned about veteran with PTSD, judge serves time with... by abiox on Friday April 22, 2016 @11:35PM (#11554044)
does this mean people are "inable" to call something combative when it's combative?
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Re:Concerned about veteran with PTSD, judge serves time with... by csours on Saturday April 23, 2016 @02:12AM (#11554380)
Trolling is a art.
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Re:Concerned about veteran with PTSD, judge serves time with... by adenadel on Friday April 22, 2016 @04:11PM (#11552244)
No, if anything the shared experience makes the judge more able to be empathetic. Most people would only be able to sympathize.
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Re:Concerned about veteran with PTSD, judge serves time with... by nickbauman on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:55PM (#11552152)
Empathy doesn't exclude shared experience.
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