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The Limits of Sympathy: Relating to Images of Distress

December 1, 2018 · Elise Billiard ·

The fear of witnessing the pain of others is caused by our empathy coupled with an intense feeling of powerlessness. And sympathy may even be a highly misleading path to trod on, if it does not encourage us to reflect on the reasons for horrors to occur.

Tagged With: compassion, democracy, migration, sympathy

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