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What is an important core value for you?
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Empathy
If you can't see why other people's suffering should concern you, i'm not gonna be able to relate to you on any level.
Was this description meant to be ironic, or was that accidental?
Can you explain what you mean by that?
Just funny that you are saying that you can't relate to someone because they can't relate to someone. Empathy isn't just about feeling other people's pain, it's about being able to understand things from another perspective.
Not being able to relate to them is literally relating to them.
I see the joke in it now, but its a bit of a stretch of the definition imo :D
A little like the tolerance paradox. I can't tolerate intolerance - this is necessary for tolerance to survive
Edit: butchered the sentence a bit