Like the poor lack empathy and then as you go up the bell curve empathy rises, maxing out at middle class, and then again falling as you start hitting being rich?

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I'm not sure that recognizing someone's suffering is the same as feeling that suffering. Empathy is feeling another person's suffering as if it were your own. So, to hurt that person would be to hurt yourself.

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