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Introduction Draft: Empathy and Fear/Hate

If you saw a little girl lying in her own blood on the street what would you do? Many people say they will send her to hospital absolutely. But to you surprise, nobody saved her even though there is eighteen persons went across her. It real happened in China. Consider the news" How does China lost its soul?" by Mark Mackinnon. There is a girl called Yueyue was hurt by two drivers, 18 people pass by without stopping to save her. Many people feel angry that they did not save Yueyue. But if you use empathy to think in their perspective, you can understand their behavior. In that time, they though that if they saved Yueyue, many people would thought it was him hurt that girl. So at that moment, people were afraid that if they saved that girl, Yueyue’s parents or other person would think he hurt Yueyue. So he would get trouble in this case. Because in China, there is many thing that people help others, but they be called criminal in the end. So there is a reason that why they do not save that girl. But if you use Yueyue’s parent perspective, you will think all of them should go to hell. How can they saw an injured girl and did not do anything to help her? It is true that people will change his perspective if he uses empathy to think. Because it will make you know more ideas from other persons’ angle. So you will know something information you do not know before. Because after you know more idea you do not consider, you will consider it deeply and it always gives you different ideas even though you think of same thing.