Empathy going short
By gurujee
@gurujee (216)
India
March 9, 2012 3:11am CST
There is an ever widening gap between the have-nots and the well off in their general outlook and their lifestyle. The saddest part of the whole thing is that the deprived lot, to whom life is a great struggle, are to remain the guardians of morality whereas their counterparts do not give a hoot to ethics of social life (no generalization intended). The wealthy often fail to empathize with the common people. What is responsible for this decline in fellow feeling - one's excessive money or one's own depravity?
1 response
@winston90 (296)
• Romania
10 Mar 12
Eventhough all of us are capable of empatyzing, not all of us deserve it.
There are people that make mistake after mistake, hurting the ones that he loves and the one that love him, that at some point he no longer deserves anybodys empathy.
It is just a saying that the rich fail to empathize, but there is a difference between empathizing and helping.
Maybe they feel sorry for the, and would want to help, but what will become of him after helping everybody equally?
Nothing. He would have wasted his all fortune, and no one would be pleased, especially him.
