A car wreck is terrifying. The crash is sudden,abrupt, and powerful, leaving a person helpless to the car’s force, with little to no time to react. If someone has been in a car wreck, they will be more empathetic to other victims, and may even be led to help others that have been in the same situation. The persons may even take the experience a step further and try their hardest to prevent another incident. Empathy is the link from person to person, offering more feeling towards another predicament than any other emotion. Without empathy interpersonal connections would weaken and emotions would diminish. Moral action is greatly led by empathy because empathy has benefits, many reasons for empathy to be a part of everyday life, and a different feeling that is created of many emotions that can lead morals. Empathy is a fantastic source for societal benefits because empathy is able to build closer relationships with other people and obtain great jobs that require a substantial amount of empathy to preform. Psychologist Jean Decety of the University of Chicago and psychiatrist Jason M. Cowell of the University of Chicago said “Empathy …show more content…
Empathy is able to help people help other people, in instances like car crash recovery. From personal experience, car crashes are frightening and anyone who has been in one can have a strong empathic connection with others, whether only a day has passed or years. Experiences like that are imprinted heavily, and that imprint will guide how a person is in life, like whether the person is careful or reckless. Empathy can be enough to abolish something like slavery, to make a person feel better after an injury like breaking a bone, or to possibly share excitement about something as simple as losing a