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    Feeling empathy does not guarantee that a person will alw... — Carmelics
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    Feeling empathy does not guarantee that a person will always engage in helping behavior.

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    • 1.People may have conflicting desires that compete with the empathy-driven desire to help.
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    • 2.Not all motivational conflicts are resolved in favor of empathy's urgings.
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    • 1.On Batson's empathy-altruism hypothesis, genuine empathic concern constitutively motivates altruistic action, not merely correlates with it.
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    • 2.If empathy reliably produces ultimate rather than instrumental altruistic motivation, apparent failures to help indicate absent empathy, not inefficacious empathy.
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    • 1.Aristotelian virtue ethics holds that properly cultivated moral emotions, including compassion, are integrated with practical reason such that they reliably issue in right action.
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    • 2.If empathy failures to produce helping reflect motivational weakness rather than empathy's intrinsic limits, the claim conflates akrasia with a deficiency in empathy itself.
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    If the philosophical tradition that suggests the empathy-altruism hypothesis is on the right track, and Batson believes it is, one would predict that when people feel empathy they will desire to help those who evoke the emotion, and thus be more inclined to engage in helping behavior than people who do not feel empathy. This does not mean that people will always engage in helping behavior when they feel empathy, since people may often have conflicting desires, and not all conflicts are resolved
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