[bsoles]

> You should feel the same about your wife or child as someone else's.

I don't see why it should be so.

It makes perfect sense to sympathize(?) and understand that somebody is grieving and is likely going through pain/emotions that I would have gone through if my wife/child has died. But that is not the same thing as me feeling those emotions.

Isn't this the distinction between empathy and sympathy?

[solumunus]

They were pointing out the implication in the source material but not agreeing with it.