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Why The Empathy Critics Are Wrong: Empathy Doesn’t Break Democracy, It Makes It

Roman Krznaric · 9 May 2014

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  1. Most of their arguments are based on a false dichotomy between empathy and reason.
  2. empathy opens the door of our moral concern for neglected or marginalised social groups, and then rights and laws wedge that door open.

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