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Re:When Do We Have Empathy for the Mentally Ill? by closeparen on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @12:11AM (#18063532)
I’d expect a perceived medical problem to garner more empathy than a perceived weakness/lack of grit.
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Re:When Do We Have Empathy for the Mentally Ill? by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @12:28AM (#18063606)
That’s the beautiful complexity of social science research - always trying to hit a moving target: one person believes that a biological explanation is necessary for empathy and another believes that an emotional reasoning is necessary for empathy.

Either could just be sufficient though and likelihood of sufficiency for empathy is the thing, subject to the whim and winds of society, being studied.

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