Empathy does not just stop when you consider that their life shaped them that way! Empathy is part of emulating their mind, why they might behave in this way, and then dragging that back to how your mind understands things.
Empathy is still and should be integrated within your understanding of the world, your values, even if you understand that they are shaped differently. You can still be displeased, unhappy that they’ve been shaped in a certain way, disquieted because they do not grasp for all that they can be. I feel empathy for someone who has faltered, failed to reach even if they do not even want to reach for more because of how they’ve been affected by life.
As well, even if I take the strict latter definition and proceed from their mental frame entirely, that still entails some degree of disquiet. People often wish that they could be more, find things easier, be less stressed but then fail to take routes that lead to that which are visible from the outside but hard to see from the inside.
Empathy does not just stop when you consider that their life shaped them that way! Empathy is part of emulating their mind, why they might behave in this way, and then dragging that back to how your mind understands things. Empathy is still and should be integrated within your understanding of the world, your values, even if you understand that they are shaped differently. You can still be displeased, unhappy that they’ve been shaped in a certain way, disquieted because they do not grasp for all that they can be. I feel empathy for someone who has faltered, failed to reach even if they do not even want to reach for more because of how they’ve been affected by life.
As well, even if I take the strict latter definition and proceed from their mental frame entirely, that still entails some degree of disquiet. People often wish that they could be more, find things easier, be less stressed but then fail to take routes that lead to that which are visible from the outside but hard to see from the inside.