This is your problem = "it seems to me that ......."
Empathy has much more to do with somehow knowing of the feelings of despair, hopelessness and discouragement in the lives of some; "what we actually do" is something called BENEVOLENCE.
=====================================================Empathy means saying, "I feel your pain".
Bill Clinton
Empathy is an English word with a real definition : the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner;
JD
