We investigated.
choosing to selectively empathise with this situation, but not with similar tragedies occurring in other parts of the world.
This week, a devastating earthquake hit Afghanistan and killed over 1,000 people. But there doesn’t seem to be a huge amount of outrage or news coverage. Is this due to selective empathy?If we are deciding that certain groups, problems or countries are less deserving of our empathy or more difficult to relate to, that then calls to question whether our ownaffects whether certain issues get their air time when it comes to reporting, word of mouth discussion, and support.
"Maybe I have a dog and I read stories about the pets left behind in Ukraine when people had to leave to escape the violence. And because I have a dog, I look down at my dog and easily imagine that I had to leave my dog to roam my neighbourhood on its own when I fled in the middle of the night. She adds that selective empathy can “restrict our own learning”, leading us to “remain in our own echo chamber”, and only helping one or a certain group of people also leads others to feel marginalised.
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