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The reader may have had a hard time with the concept of ectropy, or the reader may have had a hard time conceptualizing a good place to start building a foundation from which to start moving toward a good life, and start moving away from a bad life, and those difficulties can be known.
It can be known that it is difficult to understand how to make life better, and how to move further away from a life that is bad.
It can be impossible to not know the difference, as life becomes very bad, and that can be easy to see, as easy to see as a person running into a burning building, as the fire in the building starts to heat up the person running into the burning building.
Life for the person running into the burning building will rapidly become unbearably worse, as the person catches fire, and as the person burns to death.
A person who is not running into a burning building can see a person who is running into a burning building and a person can know better by seeing the person running into the burning building as the person running into the burning building catches fire and burns to death, right in front of the person who witnesses that death by fire.
Cause and effect.
Run into the building on fire.
Die.
Don't run into the burning building.
Don't die.
Know better.
This is simple. See and learn.
What happens if the person running into the building does not burn up, and instead the person running into the burning building comes back out of the burning building with a baby that is alive, frightened, crying, but safe, not burning, and not dead?
Know better.
This is not as simple as adding 1 number to another number, there is more to the basic principle, and the next step offered to you is to know better, and that process of knowing better can be called many names and we can find a few names that work better.
Know better, be careful.
What does it mean to care for another person?
How about empathy?
How about sympathy?
How can you know better if you don't have the tools to know better?
You do have the tools, if you are standing on a good foundation, and one of those tools is called sympathy.
You can see, and know better, because you can imagine being a baby, and being scared, and being too hot, and catching fire, and burning to death, and it is very sad, and it is horrible, and it is terrifying, and it is bad, and so you know better than to leave that baby in that burning building, or at least you know why someone runs into the burning building.
That person knew better and you can know better too.
You can relate. You can see better, because you can imagine being in the same place as someone who is in a bad place, even if you are not in a bad place.
What about empathy?
I don't know, but I think I know better, and you can help me see better, somehow, and I'm not sure how, but I think that there is a thing that happens to good people who have built their own good foundations and when they see other people in bad places they feel bad too.
People actually feel as bad as the people seen. I feel good, but seeing a person in a bad situation causes me to feel bad too. That may be empathy at work, or it may be something much more complex than just a word.
There may be a big difference between someone who can see someone else in a bad place, and know that someone else is in a bad place, and on the other hand a person shares all the bad stuff once one person knows someone else is in a bad place, even while someone is in a good place, it does not matter that only one person is in a bad place, both people are then in bad places.
Why?
Why is there something called empathy? Why would someone in a good place become worse once a person can see someone in a bad place?
We can use math to help know better.
1.
Person in a good place.
2.
Person in a bad place.
3.
The person in a good place sees, and then knows, that another person is in a bad place.
4.
The person in a good place stays in a good place, and the person in a bad place stays in a bad place.
5.
The person in a good place moves to the bad place for some reason.
Why?
Why does 5 happen sometimes?
Why does 4 happen sometimes?
Why do people share, why do people help each other, what is the point?
Why does someone who knows better than to go to bad places go anyway - go from a good place to a bad place on purpose? Why does someone who is in a good place go to a bad place on purpose, go willingly?
Why does a person in a good place volunteer to go to a bad place?
Empathy may be in our lives for a good reason.
Know better
[Joe: editing 09/23/2011]