America is Experiencing an Empathy Crisis.

We seem to have lost a sense of care for, warmth toward, and the ability, as well as choice, to put ourselves in other’s shoes.

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Empathy is considered a core part of what it means to be a feeling, engaged human that people who lack empathy are thought to be lacking in humanity. Some would go so far as to say…