Oh! Thank you my dear @dysfunctional. It was an overwhelming 'spectacle', but no lives were lost :D

Yes! The link you made here between empathy and emotional intelligence is an essential one for this discussion. Thank you for bringing this up!

It is truly a difficult balance to find. I have come across many people (often highly agreeable or little assertive individuals) who just completely forget themselves in order to help, please or take action for others. And like you said, some of them actually got in trouble for 'over helping'. All because reason was pushed away by emotions. It is a tricky one!

Another important point you raised here is that 'life goes on'. I stated this in another reply to a comment: 'One has the tendency to judge others based on what they appear to feel'. Except that, no one other than oneself knows that. Plus, the degree of empathy with which someone responds to a particular circumstance, by no means, defines their overall moral standards or level of humanity. I suppose it is too easy just to put the emotionally-ignorant + the neglectful in the same pool!

Thank you for stopping by :)
Much love to you from Portugal!