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    It is not the case that Feeling empathy does not guarantee that a person will always engage in helping behavior.

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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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    • 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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