You need your textbook in class on Tuesday. We will read and discuss Unit 1.
Before noon on Sunday, September 11th, leave a comment answering these questions:
What does empathy mean to you? What do you think we could do to become more empathetic? Do you think we have a responsibility to be kind to those around us? Why or why not?
Be sure your answers well thought out and are in full sentences. Be sure to answer all of the above questions.
Before class time on Tuesday, return to this post and reply* to at least one of your classmate’s comments. You may feel free to post as many times and as much as you like beyond the minimum requirement. Have fun with it!
*Note: Replies must be well thought out and complete sentences. Saying “I agree” is not enough. With what do you agree (or respectfully disagree)? Why? Do you have suggestions, additions? Be thorough.
Reminder: be sure to bring your grammar book on the 16th.
Empathy means to be able to understand a person and to be able to relate to them.We can try to learn about one’s cultural and religion to be more empathetic. Yes we have a responsibility to be kind to those around us because we are all equal.
I agree with you, “we are all equal.” We need to respect other. If you do not respect other. Maybe they will do the same thing like what you do for them.
I agree with you that we all created equally, we each held responsibility for each other
For me empathy is to be able to understand the ideas of others, and to place our self in the shoes of others. I don’t think we have the responsibility to be kind to other, but if I want to be treated with kindness and respect I should treat people the same way I would like to be treated.
I agree with your statement because empathy like boomerang. If someone treated you with kindness and respect you should treat them the same way.
For me empathy is to be able to understand the ideas of others, and to place our self in the shoes of others. I don’t think we have the responsibility to be kind to other, but if I want to be treated with kindness and respect I should treat people the same way I would like to be treated.
I agree with you. If we want to be treated with respect we should show respects to the others first. In the opposite, if you are mean then others will not be kind to you.
For me empathy is to be able to understand and have same feeling of others, and be able to stand in others’ point of view to think. I think we can try to learn about others’ background and what they have experienced to be more empathetic. I think we have the responsibility to be kind to others, while we want to be treated kindly. In addition, if everyone can treat each other kindly, then whole community will be better.
I do agree with you. As I think, people should treat others more kindly, as a result, it would make our society become more harmonious.
Jin I completely agree with your comments,and I licked you mention we should treat everyone equally which is great. But only treating people good can not make universe better place. For example, based on the current news all over the world there has been lots of shocking things happening like Orlando shooting and France shooting,and which causing lots of people death in everywhere which make our empathy but solving the problem . I think we should treat nicely all different background people, different religion so can make universe great place
For me empathy is to be able to understand and have same feeling of others, and be able to stand in others’ point of view to think. I think we can try to learn about others’ background and what they have experienced to be more empathetic. I think we have the responsibility to be kind to others, while we want to be treated kindly. In addition, if everyone can treat each other kindly, then whole community will be better.
I agree with your thought because because treat everyone equally not just benefit yourself and also the society.
Empathy is the understanding of how someone feels. You will have identical feelings as they are. To be more empathetic we should place ourselves in the persons situation. I think that we have the responsibility to be kind to those around us especially the dearest ones. Because people will treat you like the way you treat them.
I agree with you. because people treated you the same as you treat them. “Yourself sets the standards for others. “
I agree with you to Understand someone I have to be in the same situation that they in people just can’t say they under stand that person or know how he feel if they never been in that same situation of that main person
For me empathy mean people can understanding other people’s feeling or emotion. We can lean other people’s situation or replace ourselves to their situation. I think we have a responsibility to those around us. It is because people treat you just like you how to treat them.
I agree with you. If we want people treat us kindly we must to treat them kindly.
Empathy is like someone understanding something same as what you think and feel. I think we need know about that person,know how they think to become more empathetic. I think we do have responsibility to be kind to those around us because if u kind to them, respect them then they will do the same to you.
yes, I agree with you. I think Its a really great idea to know each other and feel their emotion.
Empathy, it means that you have the same feeling as others who went through the same situations as you, then you might have the same emotions as them. Also, if you want to become more empathetic, you can try to stand on others’s point to think the questions, sometimes when you stand on the different angles to see things, you might have the different thoughts of it. Moreover, I think that we have the responsibility to be kind to others, because when we treat other as good as we treat our family, others would also treat you as how you treat them. It just like the causal effect.
I like your answers, and if you think of others like family help to be kind with everyone else.
Empathy means, the ability of understanding feeling of another who when though the same situation like putting yourself in someone else’s shoes or seeing though someone else’s eyes and as people, we should be responsible to be kind to others because we probably or have been in this kind of situations as them and we should find ways or solutions in making them feel better.
Empathy is what we experience when we feel other people emotions on bad situations.It like ability to relate to another’s emotions, and understand and share what they are feeling. I think we have responsibility to treat everyone equally in order to make universe better place. Because if we help someone on their bad situation, and another day someone else will help us on our bad situation.
I would like to note that you can also be empathetic with someone in a happy situation , feeling happiness for the happiness of someone else.
Empathy is a emotional response refers to the suffering of others. It’s a moral that people should have in their character. I think everyone should have the responsibility to treat other people equally, because we are from the same nature what other people feel now can also be happen to you in the future. Maybe at that time they will help you back.
I like you point, I agree that people should treat others equally.
Empathy is an ability to understand and share someones feeling. As a human being we all have different kinds of feeling and we should respect it. Instead of making fun of other feeling we should be kind and esteem. We all are equally living object on the earth. So, we should respect each other feeling.
I agree with you, we all should be equal in the world.We need respect each other because it u repect other they also respect you.
Empathy is something mora than similar emotions, feelings, sensations and reactions. Beyond neurons Empathy comes to be, because we descend from the same Creator. We have similar caracteristics and qualities. To become more empathic we just have to remember our spirtual conection, and yes we have to be kind to those around us, because our words and actions are pure energy , energy that surrounds us. Energy that will come back to us.
I agree with your statement because empathy can be something more then just feelings or having emotions it just understanding what others are going through even if there feeling sad or feeling happiness
Empathy it is something that each person is born with. It is the ability to feel their own and another persons feeling. Empathy to me means being a live. It means a heathy mental stability of a humans mind. Each person can do something to become more empathetic. For example, explain different kinds of feeling to their children so that they can grow and see the difference between good and bad. Children need to understand that their words can hurt another person. By doing this, parents can also became more empathetic. People become more emotional and sensitive to the world around them. There are a lot of movies and songs that can bring empathetic person to tears. Each person is different and had harder or lessen sensitivity to the surrounded world. In my opinion, we are responsible to those around us because each action has consequences and in some cases it can be fatal to some people. We as humans being must keep an eye on the world around us and take care of each other. Every person has a right to have a good live with full of happiness and positive emotions.
What do Empathy mean well for me Empathy means to under stand someone feelings just by looking at them the face expression that they make will determine if that person is feeling halo or sad so it all depend on the persons body structure or the way his face is looking
Empathy means to understand others’ feelings. We need to be more generous and more considerate to other people. I believe we have the responsibility to be kind to other people, because you should treat others the way you want to be treated.
yes I agreed with you about being more generous and considerate to other people. we should even respect their feelings too.
empathy means to be able to understand one another feelings and knowing what they are feeling. In order to become more empathetic is we should listen to each other feelings.Yes we have the responsibility to be kind to those around us because everyone deserve to be treat with respect and kindness. You should treat other people with respect especially with their feelings too.
To me the word Empathy means to understand and entering into feelings of someone. We can talk to people and listening to their story to increase empathy for others. I don’t think we need to be empathetic to people around us, because it’s non of our business.