[LesZedCB]

> Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

I don't really agree. What you are describing sounds like social engineering, which certainly requires a sensitivity to empathy. Either way, your argument is about a trivial difference, and they still had good things to say on the subject.

[anotherhacker]

Your agreement or disagreement is irrelevant.

Did you watch the video? Did you read the link? Obviously not.

If you had, you would have listened to Heinz Kohut talk about how empathy is misused. Empathy is an informer for action-it has nothing to do with "connecting with people"

I also take it you don't know who Heinz Kohut is. Which means you're not educated in psychology. Anyone with any kind of decent education will study Kohut just as much as Freud or Skinner.

[danharaj]

I think you should stop confusing words and their denotations. If one person uses a word to mean one thing, and another uses a word to mean another, perhaps similar thing, that is not in of itself "wrong". Words don't care how they are used.

"You're all using this word wrong" can only come across as comical or annoying.

[LesZedCB]

No, i'm not educated in psychology. I don't see how that is even remotely relevant in a conversation about how to connect with people across screens and digital displays...

[hueving]

>means you're not educated in psychology

Probably a good thing since it's turning out that the whole field is filled with junk science.