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  • I would argue that the average person refers to a mix of both when they use the word “empathy”:

    • caring about the other person’s pain
    • being there for them
    • trying to see things from their perspective
    • wanting the other person to be better and wondering how one could help.

    Classifying one as “a terrible problem” and the other as acceptable seems (at least) a bit pedantic. Specially when it comes to language, a dynamic phenomena in which words mean what (the majority of) people deem them to mean.

    my two cents