Empathy: Overrated?

Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic
Fri, 07/03/2015 - 1:21pm

Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters In 2006, then-senator Barack Obama gave a commencement speech offering what seemed like very sensible advice. “There’s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit,” he told Northwestern’s graduating class. “But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit—the ability to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes; to see the world through those who are different from us—the child who’s hungry, the laid-off steelworker, the immigrant woman cleaning your dorm room.” In the years since then, the country has followed Obama’s counsel, at least when it comes to talking about empathy.

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