Empathy Day

[MuslimAgorist]

While the primary symptom is a denial of women their rights, specifically those guaranteed to them by Islam, I feel the primary problem is a lack of empathy. Although many people mistakenly believe them to be synonymous, empathy and sympathy have very distinct meanings. While sympathy connotes a kind of pity or compassion for a person it doesn't mean you really understand what it's like to be in their situation. Empathy is level above that where you are actually capable of feeling what the other person is feeling vicariously. To make it easy to remember, sympathy is feeling for someone, empathy is feeling with someone. For most people actual empathy is very difficult to achieve without having some measure of similar experience. I propose the following to rectify that deficiency.

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