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BlueToTheBone

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2. I read a study that one person elicits sympathy

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Fri Nov 30, 2012, 11:13 AM

Nov 2012

but when you have this many dead, it is overwhelming and the mind shuts it off. Humans are an imperfect species. I don't know if the empathy gene exists or it is a trait that must be developed.

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