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MelissaMitgangSecondPaper 4 - 22 Aug 2009 - Main.EbenMoglen
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This is a rewrite of Jamila McCoy? 's paper.
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  Simon Baron-Cohen’s work, “Autism: The Empathizing-Systemizing (E-S) Theory,” examines the discrepancy between autistic children’s below-average abilities to empathize and their systematizing skills (average or above average). His analysis sheds light on a complementary capability to vicarious anger and empathy: systematizing, or “the drive to analyze or construct systems” (p. 71). In order to bring about change, empathy is not enough; neither is analysis. The proper balance between the two, between social connection and intellectual detachment, is also necessary.

Though vicarious anger and empathy cannot be touched or eaten, they are an important starting point. They can motivate an individual unit of a social organization to redefine what fulfills her while enabling her to truly help those in need by understanding their needs. While additional abilities, including the capability to detach from and analyze an emotionally charged situation, are necessary for ultimate success, empathy and motivating anger are vital assets to an attorney trying to make a difference.

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  • I think this is a somewhat peculiar edit, combining Jamila's original personal story with a range of machinery, psychological literature citation and the terminology it supports, grafted in, despite the absence of any such orientation in Jamila's draft. The result is inorganic: neither distanced from her story (now material viewed with a professional detachment) nor in her voice. One might have assimilated the new concepts to her cadences, and tried to orchestrate new material in her style. Or one might have cut the connection to her experience. But I think the effort to avoid the decision was unfortunately productive of more problems than it solved.
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