We don't have a resolved way to determine whether it's fair to expect empathy for people whose experiences we've never come close to sharing.
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Genuine empathy is often praised as essential to moral understanding, but it's unclear how much true empathy is even possible without any lived proximity to another's specific suffering. This unresolved tension complicates how we approach compassion across vastly different life experiences.