Empathy writing
This paper inspired me to start this group. I built the paper mostly from the writing of empathy researchers such as Azar Nafisi. She wrote " No amount of political correctness can make us empathize with 'a child left orphaned .. Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic of imagination, creates this shock of recognition."


Empathy gallery
Orangutans, elephants, whales and many other animals have human-level empathy: empathic neurons, the spindle and mirror cells. Whales have empathic neuron structures more sophisticated than humans have or any other animals.

Ending animal testing: free technology
An important step towards universal empathy is the elimination of sadistic chemical testing on animals, called animal experimentation, by replacing, or "virutalizing," the testing process with computers and networks; this is often called bio-molecular testing. There is interest in this group to contribute towards this accomplishment. Important to converting testing to computers is the Linux operating system; Linux is the system behind the US government, or NOAA, weather forecasting system, and also the giant search engine, Google.

Empathy in education and therapy: My experiences
Within every child springs forth an effort to make the best of every day. Rogers says in his writing that every animal has this energy, and even every plant. Children naturally develop interest and responsibility, and that the children who are ultimately most successful, who have self-actualized the best, are the ones who develop their interests independently and from within, and do so at the earliest age.

Winning!! Protesting a rodeo within the Empathy Model
I had a recent positive experience protesting a rodeo in Connecticut, where I brought the animal lovers group to talk to the local cop, and we swayed the cop to our side because the rodeo bull riders had thrown stuff at us as they left the fair grounds. I strongly feel that because we associated criminal behavior with the hurting of young animals for sport that we permanently damaged the reputation of the Rodeo, thereby damaging its profit business model.