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I'll give a perfect example.

As I am following the impending collapse of the Iranian regime, a paradox, or what I thought to be a paradox, was blatant. The people of Iran held Israeli flags in support of Netanyahu. The American flag was present also, but the Israeli flag? The Iranian people are well informed of the human rights violations that Israel has perpetuated on the people of Palestine. They are well aware of the ongoing genocide. Netanyahu is conducting his tyranny in the same manner that the Islamic Republic of Iran has perpetuated on the Iranian people. Yet, the people are crying for his help. 

Why?

That is perplexing. Well...from an outside perspective, and just looking at it objectively, it will be difficult to understand why. Only empathy can help gain a better and more accurate understanding. Originally, I thought it could just fall under that old cliche: An enemy of your enemy is your friend. That is incorrect. At the moment, the Iranian people are not looking for allies or friends. They are looking for ways to survive. Period. Think of it like this. Assume you are a moral man who lives strictly by the virtue that stealing is never justified, under any circumstance. Then your child comes down with a terminal illness, and you cannot afford the medication that will save his life. The only way to reach that medication is to break into a pharmacy and steal it. Justified? Who cares? Me personally, I wouldn't even think about it. I am breaking in. Throw my *** in jail. Whatever. 

They are not looking at Iran as an ally or a friend. they see them as a means to help them survive. Only empathy can help us unravel a perplexing concept.   

Well?

Empathy comes from sharing time equally adapting in space since personal conception every lifetime is limited to their one cycle living so far.

Sympathy is mind control from a person intellectually believing they are above and outside equal time adapting as occupying space to the moment factually suggesting life is more than staying alive each heart beat forward now.

Series parallel events work spontaneously separated simultaneously here in specificity of all events universally happening now.

Political minds and spiritual souls obey context beyond navigating time alive since conception and every typecast person defends their adopted after birth narrative come hell or high water every generation historically reaching current events.

Brain navigates personal position since conception and a social mind protects social consensus until extinction happens. Extinction physically happens when great great grandchildren aren't born anymore to replace their 30 previous relatives by conception in the last 2 centuries.