I've been thinking a lot about empathy, between my classes and things going on politically. Having or not having empathy is not necessarily a good or bad thing, it's just having the ability to share in someone else's emotions as well as understand them. Besides I find more people to be sympathetic than empathetic.
This is an empathy quotient test. It would be cool to see how empathetic or not empathetic the community is (:
My score: 70/80
p.s. at the end it talks about how an under 30 could be indicative of an autism spectrum disorder but please don't take that as any sort of diagnosis // happy test taking!
are you more sympathetic or empathetic or neither?
i didnt read the article but i can address this point that a lot of people don't understand and think it's cynical on the face of it
there is no such thing as selflessness, and that is not as bad as it sounds at first. why? because people who are compassionate generally benefit from it; not financially or whatever, but emotionally. can you tell me that you don't feel good helping people if you're empathetic? it makes you feel good, doesn't it? if it didn't, you probably wouldn't do it. you might like to think that you would simply because you do now, but you just aren't thinking about the fact that, even when you make sacrifices for someone else, you still benefit emotionally
even though it's technically selfish because you stand to benefit emotionally, is it at all a bad thing that you feel good helping people?
it's a net positive. it'd suck if you didn't feel good helping people because then you'd be trading your happiness for theirs, but instead the way empathy works maximizes happiness
this test really fails to factor in anxiety because i can tell it counts social isolation as being an unempathetic trait even though social anxiety is a direct result of thinking about what other people are thinking which is the definition of empathy
tbh same, maybe the question in itself is a joke? I'm assuming practical is like some cheesy joke and verbal humor is just typical humor related things through socializing with others like sarcasm, or off the top of you head jokes. but im probably wrong
yeah that bit throws me off too, i just ignored it bc it's one of those like cynical points of view where i suspect the writer is one of those who doesn't believe in true selflessness or that everything is it benefit oneself etc etc
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I actually tried I didn't just blow through this thing
