Comments on: What's Empathy Got To Do With It? http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/05/08/whats-empathy-got-to-do-with-it/ Politics and Culture from a Catholic perspective. Wed, 23 May 2012 17:50:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: How Long in the Wilderness? « The American Catholic http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/05/08/whats-empathy-got-to-do-with-it/#comment-20018 How Long in the Wilderness? « The American Catholic Fri, 15 May 2009 03:07:30 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=8268#comment-20018 [...] either, and I have serious concerns about President Obama’s SCOTUS nominations (no matter how empathetic). It’s interesting that both parties seem fairly rudderless at the moment. The [...] [...] either, and I have serious concerns about President Obama’s SCOTUS nominations (no matter how empathetic). It’s interesting that both parties seem fairly rudderless at the moment. The [...]

]]> By: Matt http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/05/08/whats-empathy-got-to-do-with-it/#comment-20017 Matt Sat, 09 May 2009 22:30:56 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=8268#comment-20017 Isn't justice supposed to be blind anyway??? Isn’t justice supposed to be blind anyway???

]]> By: ron chandonia http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/05/08/whats-empathy-got-to-do-with-it/#comment-20016 ron chandonia Sat, 09 May 2009 21:54:30 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=8268#comment-20016 This analysis makes vastly more sense than Kmiec's article, and you didn't even get to the part where he explained how lacking in "meaning or lasting effect"--not to mention empathy--is "coerced morality" of the sort some villainous people propose as a solution to the problem of abortion in America. It's too bad your analysis can't also be printed in <i>America</i>, but it seems they only accept submissions from prominent pro-life Catholics like Douglas Kmiec. This analysis makes vastly more sense than Kmiec’s article, and you didn’t even get to the part where he explained how lacking in “meaning or lasting effect”–not to mention empathy–is “coerced morality” of the sort some villainous people propose as a solution to the problem of abortion in America. It’s too bad your analysis can’t also be printed in America, but it seems they only accept submissions from prominent pro-life Catholics like Douglas Kmiec.

]]> By: Gabriel Austin http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/05/08/whats-empathy-got-to-do-with-it/#comment-20015 Gabriel Austin Sat, 09 May 2009 18:42:16 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=8268#comment-20015 "Empathy" [Einfuehlung] is one of those German make- believe emotions; an attempt to displace the more obvious and traditional word "sympathy". It's a faker's word. As in Mr. Clinton's "I feel your pain". “Empathy” [Einfuehlung] is one of those German make- believe emotions; an attempt to displace the more obvious and traditional word “sympathy”.

It’s a faker’s word. As in Mr. Clinton’s “I feel your pain”.

]]> By: John Henry http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/05/08/whats-empathy-got-to-do-with-it/#comment-20014 John Henry Sat, 09 May 2009 17:08:59 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=8268#comment-20014 In reading through comments on another blog, I learned that Prof. Kmiec has Parkinson's disease. Here is a link and some excerpts to an article he recently wrote about Parkinson's and embryonic stem cell research: http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=32655 <i>Over time, however, all Parkinson's patients know that after a short span the medication fails and we also know what that means. We have uncomfortably witnessed our future in the lives of longer suffering brothers and sisters...So you would think that when President Obama, for whom it was my privilege to campaign, gives permission for embryonic stem cell research that some say holds a Parkinson's cure that I would be grateful and encouraged. Yet, I am not. While I believe the President’s desire to separate science and politics is well considered, there can be no separation from ethics,</i> <i>To avoid cooperating with an intrinsic evil, this trembling hand is not to take hold of any medicine or participate in any medical treatment advanced by research involving the destruction of a human embryo. Easier said than done – or by me, even written down. But then, in this Easter time we are reminded that we belong to a Church where the very son of God allowed himself to be put to death so that others might live.</i> The article contains, naturally, some defenses of the Obama administration, but I think perhaps I will make a conscious effort to display more sympathy for Prof. Kmiec (if not for some of his arguments) in the future. Anyone with such a difficult and debilitating illness is in need of prayers for their physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being. Our Lady of Sorrows, ora pro nobis. In reading through comments on another blog, I learned that Prof. Kmiec has Parkinson’s disease. Here is a link and some excerpts to an article he recently wrote about Parkinson’s and embryonic stem cell research:

http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=32655

Over time, however, all Parkinson’s patients know that after a short span the medication fails and we also know what that means. We have uncomfortably witnessed our future in the lives of longer suffering brothers and sisters…So you would think that when President Obama, for whom it was my privilege to campaign, gives permission for embryonic stem cell research that some say holds a Parkinson’s cure that I would be grateful and encouraged. Yet, I am not. While I believe the President’s desire to separate science and politics is well considered, there can be no separation from ethics,

To avoid cooperating with an intrinsic evil, this trembling hand is not to take hold of any medicine or participate in any medical treatment advanced by research involving the destruction of a human embryo. Easier said than done – or by me, even written down. But then, in this Easter time we are reminded that we belong to a Church where the very son of God allowed himself to be put to death so that others might live.

The article contains, naturally, some defenses of the Obama administration, but I think perhaps I will make a conscious effort to display more sympathy for Prof. Kmiec (if not for some of his arguments) in the future. Anyone with such a difficult and debilitating illness is in need of prayers for their physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being. Our Lady of Sorrows, ora pro nobis.

]]> By: jh http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/05/08/whats-empathy-got-to-do-with-it/#comment-20013 jh Sat, 09 May 2009 15:23:11 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=8268#comment-20013 Where is all his talk of Natural Law!!! DO people recall in many of his Catholic Online articles and other places Kmiec would always put in several paragraphs that he believs the law should the Natural Law as seein the Declaration of Independence and esp Right to Life as being inaleiable Where is that here? Now it was nonsense to think that Obam would give us a Natural law judge in the first place and Kmiec never explined how it would happen But looking through this entire article where is the natural law theme. In fact as to SOuter , who was a huge postivist and did his thesis on Justice Holmes) there is no mention of that. Where is all his talk of Natural Law!!! DO people recall in many of his Catholic Online articles and other places Kmiec would always put in several paragraphs that he believs the law should the Natural Law as seein the Declaration of Independence and esp Right to Life as being inaleiable

Where is that here? Now it was nonsense to think that Obam would give us a Natural law judge in the first place and Kmiec never explined how it would happen

But looking through this entire article where is the natural law theme.

In fact as to SOuter , who was a huge postivist and did his thesis on Justice Holmes) there is no mention of that.

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