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The limits of empathy common lit.

2) part b: which two details from the text best support the answer to part a?

a
“school leaders try to attract a diverse set of students so each can understand what it’s like to walk in the others’ shoes.” ( paragraph 1)
b
“empathy makes you more aware of other people’s suffering, but it’s not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.” ( paragraph 4)
c
“moreover, prinz argues, empathy often leads people astray. it influences people to care more about cute victims than ugly victims.” ( paragraph 9)
d
“it has become a way to experience delicious moral emotions without confronting the weaknesses in our nature that prevent us from actually acting upon them.” ( paragraph 10)
e
“people who actually perform pro-social action don’t only feel for those who are suffering, they feel compelled to act by a sense of duty.” ( paragraph 11)
f
“the code tells them that an adulterer or a drug dealer may feel ecstatic, but the proper response is still contempt.” ( paragraph 12)

3) part a: which of the following best describes how the author makes his claim?

a
the author compares how likely empathetic people are to take moral action with people who have a sense of duty.
b
the author draws on personal experiences of witnessing empathetic people not taking action in immoral situations.
c
the author emphasizes how much better people with a sense a duty are than people with empathy.
d
the author provides scientific evidence for why empathetic people are less likely to take actions than people with a sense of duty.

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