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To: epicure who wrote (6843)	4/27/1997 1:47:00 AM
From: Andrew H	of 108807

Will have to think about this a bit to respond seriously. Certainly child rearing is an important factor in the development of empathy, but there is no reason that men as well as women are necessarily better suited to the task of raising children (except of course for gestation and breast feeding). The fact that women most often actually do child rearing may argue that women are generally more empathetic. But this is nurture rather than nature. It is not impossible to imagine a culture in which men would be primarily responsible for child rearing and thus more empathetic than women, if care of the young is to be the primary criteria for the development and expression of empathy. As for testosterone, it is implicated in sexuality as well as aggression. While aggression may certainly temper the expression of empathy, sexuality might well benefit from empathy. Besides testosterone is only one of many hormones and many thousands of other factors influencing the human male, so I think it would be somewhat reductionist to conclude it had much overall effect of empathy. Will have to think about this some more.

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