| Question 1: Nietzsche pointed out that since all people to some degree value ________ and self-worth, pity can negatively affect any situation. | |||
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| Question 2: Though in his later works he reverses his position and sees Pity as an emotion that can draw beings together, ________ poet William Blake is known to have been ambivalent about the emotion Pity. | |||
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| Question 3: Additionally, pity may actually be ________ harmful to the pitied: Self-pity and depression can sometimes be the result of the power imbalance fostered by pity, sometimes with extremely negative psychological and psycho-social consequences for the pitied party. | |||
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| Question 4: It is an ________ that almost always results from an encounter with a real or perceived unfortunate, injured, or pathetic creature. | |||
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| Question 5: Pity evokes a tender or sometimes slightly contemptuous sorrow or ________ for people, a person, or an animal in misery, pain, or distress. | |||
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| Question 6: A person experiencing pity will experience a combination of intense sorrow and mercy for the person or creature, often giving the pitied some kind of ________, physical help, and/or financial assistance. | |||
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| Question 7: However, the philosopher ________ believed that pity causes an otherwise normal person to feel his or her own suffering in an inappropriately intense, alienated way. | |||
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| Question 8: Although pity may be confused with ________, empathy, commiseration, condolence or sympathy, pity is different from all of these. | |||
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