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Empathy.
“Thus the value of life for ordinary, everyday man is based only on his taking himself to be more important than the world.
The great lack of imagination from which he suffers keeps him from being able to empathise with other beings, and he therefore participates in their vicissitudes and suffering as little as possible.
On the other hand, whoever would be truly able to participate in it would have to despair about the value of life;
if he were able to grasp and feel mankind’s overall consciousness in himself, he would collapse with a curse against existence
– for mankind, as whole, has no goals and consequently, considering the whole affair, man cannot find his comfort and support in it, but rather his despair.“
– Nietzsche,
Human, All Too Human.
