Our degree of sympathy for another's suffering has nothing to do with the degree of misfortune but with the feelings we envision for that suffering person.We sympathize with people in their misfortune only when we feel they need it.The pain of the body is smaller than we imagined. It is the memory that prolongs the feeling of pain, and the imagination projects the pain into the future, making us feel poor.I think this may be why we have more sympathy with humans than with animals, although sympathy supposedly makes us identify with them as well.
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