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    It is not the case that Nussbaum argues that genuine empathy requires imaginative engagement with particularity, not recognition of sameness, making similarity evidence morally irrelevant to authentic empathic response.

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    • 1.Recognition of shared capacities (feeling pain, fearing loss) provides the necessary foundation for imaginative engagement; without it, understanding remains foreign.
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    • 2.Empathy psychologically depends on initial identification; even imaginative projection succeeds best when we recognize something of ourselves in others' experience.
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    • 3.Claiming similarity irrelevant creates a false dichotomy—we can honor particularity while acknowledging that universal human conditions enable rather than obstruct authentic empathy.
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    • 1.Focusing on sameness risks treating others as mirrors of ourselves, reducing their unique suffering to familiar patterns we've already rationalized.
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    • 2.Imaginative engagement with particularity requires effort that disrupts automatic, self-serving empathic responses we extend only to the similar.
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    • 3.Moral growth demands understanding perspectives radically unlike our own; similarity-based empathy leaves our moral imagination unchanged and provincial.
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