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Can empathy be both good or bad? Sometimes it is very important to listen and try to understand how people feel and to discover what they want to achieve. Everyone wants to be assisted and wants people to understand them so it pays to have empathy on people. Consider the movie "Time to Kill". In this movie, Jake who was a lawyer in the movie, gave a speech in the court about a black girl who was raped by some white men and because of that her father took revenge. He made the people in the court room including the jury, put themselves in her place and to imagine this black girl being a white girl and being their child. He made them feel empathy on the poor girl and to understand why his father killed the rapist. Empathy can be good because you may never know what will happen to you, probably you might loose an important person in life.