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Brigitte Sesu Tilley-Gyado tells alternative stories of Africa. Award winning British-Nigerian Writer, Artist and social entrepreneur. She is the winner of the National Art Competition, 2013 and founder of Africa Heritage Group and Venture Afrika Selective Empathy A universal ideal of empathy led the animals in George Orwell's allegorical Animal Farm. The animals initially declare that 'All animals are equal'. This was subsequently amended to 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'. This was universal empathy giving way to selective empathy- uniform equality overcome by a tiered equality. Selective empathy is the idea that though all people are equal, some are more equal than others. John Donne. wrote "any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind." However, are all deaths equally diminishing to the collective psyche? There are, it seems winners and losers in the sweepstakes of compassion- those who get more of our collective compassion, t

Selective Empathy A universal ideal of empathy led the animals in George Orwell's allegorical Animal Farm. The animals initially declare that 'All animals are equal'. This was subsequently amended to 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'. This was universal empathy giving way to selective empathy- uniform equality overcome by a tiered equality. Selective empathy is the idea that though all people are equal, some are more equal than others. John Donne. wrote "any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind." However, are all deaths equally diminish

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