Devon Price in “Empathy is Overated” talks about the negative side of empathy and how it can inhibit people. Price mentions many ideas such as simply feeling someones emotions does not make you a good person. Many peopel are able to feel and see emotions through others, bur actually heloing the person vs just feeling their emotion is very different. Price describes empathy as ” Empathy is an emotional simulation of what you believe another person might be feeling.” When you take what you belive to be the truth, this is where empathy can go south. People tend to think they are more helpful than they truly are. This is a way that the usual understanding of empathy is confused. When we dive deeper into empathy, is having empathy really even a helful and good thing. I never imagined empathy to be a bad thing until I read this article. I don’t think price is necesarily saying it is a bad thing, but more that is almost a naturuall occuring thing. The empathy that we have is almost meant to happen so when we express this emotion its not sone crazy generous act. I belive this is somewhat true, and to show full empathy, you can do actions to actually help others.
