EDITORIAL.- This may not be the most attractive title to attract attention, but it contains nothing less than the seed to change the world. The RAE dictionary says of the term "empathy": "Mental and affective identification of one subject with the mood of another". That of putting ourselves in the skin of the other, of weeping with the tears of others and rejoicing with their joys. To such an extent empathy is vital that people with psychopathic disorders often have a very low or lack it. As they are incapable of understanding or feeling what happens to their neighbor, their pain is indifferent to them.
Today, two very different headlines deal in a certain way with that empathy or the lack of it. The first one talks about the publication of the translation as "My little princess" from the book "My princess boy" by Cheryl Kilodavis and Suzanne DeSimone. Regarding its content, the translator says that "Addresses what happens when a young child breaks gender norms".
But beyond this succinct description, it moves what one of the authors writes about the story and about her own son: "I started to fear that they would mess with my son or harass him for going to school with a dress, so I spoke with his teacher. She spoke with other people about my fears and we made a plan to support him and other children who were also different. In view of the terrible consequences of bullying, introducing debates about acceptance may lead us to talk about basic things, such as empathy. How to put ourselves in the other's place? Empathy involves making efforts. It implies paying attention. It requires commitment. We need to practice it. And practice it more. And practice it again. " Your text says it all.
The second headline talks about the offensive tweets that have circulated about the tragic aviation accident of the flight between Barcelona and Dusseldorf where 150 people have lost their lives. You have to be very scoundrel to be happy because "Total the victims were Catalans, not people" (I quote verbatim). Or maybe you have to lack empathy, that is, be a psychopath.
What do these two pieces of news have in common? Obviously "empathy" or its lack. Tolerance, love, the understanding of the mother of a transgender child and the sick lack of scruples of who hides in social networks to delve further into the wounds of others.
You have to report facts like this, but then ignore them. Better read "My little princess", better give it to read in schools and teach the children to close their eyes and try to feel, think, speak, live in another me. Because if they learn that it will be difficult for them to rejoice in the pain of others, difficult that in the face of a tragedy like the families of the victims are living, do like the Twitter psychopaths and dare to spit the poison that fills their soul.
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