Empathy VS. Sympathy

Empathy is like putting yourself in someone else's shoes, having never gone through it, but using critical thinking to help yourself understand.

Sympathy is feeling sorry for someone, or comforting them even if you aren't putting yourself in their shoes.

It's like a prisoner on death row, I've never been in that situation and I do not feel sorry for someone, but I can put myself in their shoes.

If we can't empathize then it is going to be really hard to understand slavery, the holocaust, and other things that we don't have a close relation to, but with empathy, we can.