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RE: Why do we feel Sympathy & Empathy?
Empathy is connection and the ability to lovingly communicate non verbally and with feeling. This is the basis of many lost abilities and is absolutely necessary for survival. 'Survival of the fittest' is misleading in that it suggests some kind of competition and a 'winner', whereas in reality we are dealing with 'survivial of the most loving'. Those who fight and do harm are less likely to survive and reduce the survival of life in general. Empathy leads us to deeper levels of consciousness and thus understanding, which is needed for our own survival.
I very much agree with this. In any case I feel society is walking more and more towards these truths. We tend to hear/read all about everything that is wrong with the world when there are people like professor Pinker who actually show, with data, that we've constantly been making strides for betterment.
There are those among us who are living and choosing a path of evolution and there are many more who are going the opposite direction. Many who are headed for destruction are long since past the point of no return - therefore, it is true that humanity is evolving and devolving simultaneously.