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What is the key distinction between sympathy and empathy?

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1. What is the key distinction between sympathy and empathy?

There is no real difference; the terms are interchangeable

Sympathy is feeling pity for someone from the outside, while empathy is imaginatively stepping into their perspective

Sympathy applies only to strangers, empathy only to family

Empathy is a legal requirement, sympathy is not

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