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    Helping behavior that bypasses empathic sensitivity there... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Feeling little or no empathy does not preclude a person from engaging in helping behavior.

    Helping behavior that bypasses empathic sensitivity therefore reflects a deficit in the relevant virtue, undermining the claim that such behavior is equivalent to empathy-based helping.

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    Key Terms

    Empathic sensitivity(as used in ethics and psychology)
    The ability to emotionally understand and feel what another person is experiencing—basically putting yourself in their shoes and genuinely caring about their feelings.
    Empathy-based helping(as used in ethics and moral philosophy)
    Helping someone specifically because you genuinely feel for them and understand their suffering, rather than helping them for some other reason.
    Virtue ethics(in philosophy)
    An approach to ethics focused on developing good character traits (virtues like courage or honesty) rather than following rules or calculating outcomes.
    deficit(in philosophical analysis)
    A lack or shortage of something that is needed; a missing piece or weakness.
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    A quality that resides in the will, governing actions to which moral qualifications are assigned.

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