Would agree with most of the posts; To me, humans have some general shared experiences that may activate empathy related to those experiences, but the the numerous small differences in experience make it very hard to know exactly what the others would think/feel, even if in exactly the same situations. We could never really model the entire learning/experience history from another person.
My belief/additional point I want to add/urge is that this should not be interpreted as say empathy is not needed because we don’t get it right anyways (I saw some other comments saying evolution is against empathy) - it is more to recognize what we are not naturally good at empathy(or less well than we thought), and thus create mindsets/systems (such as asking and promoting on gathering more information about the other person) that encourage empathy consciously (when needed).
(maybe I misread, and the second point is addressing another comment)
Would agree with most of the posts; To me, humans have some general shared experiences that may activate empathy related to those experiences, but the the numerous small differences in experience make it very hard to know exactly what the others would think/feel, even if in exactly the same situations. We could never really model the entire learning/experience history from another person.
My belief/additional point I want to add/urge is that this should not be interpreted as say empathy is not needed because we don’t get it right anyways (I saw some other comments saying evolution is against empathy) - it is more to recognize what we are not naturally good at empathy(or less well than we thought), and thus create mindsets/systems (such as asking and promoting on gathering more information about the other person) that encourage empathy consciously (when needed).
(maybe I misread, and the second point is addressing another comment)