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Originally Posted by marichiko
The problem is that feeling empathy for a person has gotten mixed up with being a door mat or a sniveling co-dependent.
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Doesn't empathy mean "I feel your pain"?
To feel empathy for someone's pain, if you aren't suffering the same pain at the same time, wouldn't it be necessary that you've experienced that type of pain before and you remember how it felt?
If you can feel empathy for anyone's pain, does that mean that you must have experienced all means of feeling pain?
If you've experienced all means of feeling pain, are you are doormat?