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Panel Chairman of Mymensingh Zila Parishad inaugurates the development works of Kushmail graveyard in Phulbaria upazila on Friday.

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The empathy trap

Peter Singer :Soon after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, he told a young girl: “We don’t have enough empathy in our world today, and it is up to your generation to change that.” Obama expressed a widespread view, so the title of a new book, Against Empathy, by Yale University psychologist Paul Bloom, comes as a shock. How can anyone be against something that enables us to put ourselves in others’ shoes and feel what they...

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