loqi comments on Overcoming suffering: Emotional acceptance - Less Wrong
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Ceteris paribus, I would prefer not to be sad when my friends are sad. But this is incompatible with empathy - I use my sadness to model theirs. I can't imagine "loving" someone while trying not to understand them.