Empathy

[Martin Cassini]

Inspiring piece in Guardian about Holocaust survivor, psychologist and 'resilience' theorist, Boris Cyrulnik. His belief that empathy is instinctive and the cornerstone of humanity echoes my philosophy of life on the roads. When left to our own devices, we empathise and get on fine. When straitjacketed by an imposed set of rules that deny humanity and defy commonsense, we suffer and get the blame for the fallout (= "accidents", "road rage", congestion).