If you had troubles, would you rather have someone empathise with you, or sympathise with you?
Before you answer, I would like to first define both terms.
Empathy is henceforth defined as "Appreciation of another's problems and feelings without experiencing the same emotional reaction."
Whereas sympathy is defined as "denotes fellow feeling or emotional identification with a person when we seem to share his experiences and feelings."
So, you could say that Empathy is seeing that someone is sad, and saying "damn, you must be feeling pretty sad," while Sympathy is crying your eyes out with them.
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Well, I asked you a question. Give me an answer!
Ben
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