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		eeZah7Ux on July 2, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Acetaminophen reduces empathy for pain (2016) "If your job ... depends on feeling empathy for others, you might want to reconsider reaching for the Tylenol" I'm afraid many "competitive" jobs depend on the opposite.

atemerev on July 2, 2017 [–]

Like those thousands Facebooks and Reddit mods, whose job is to deal with unspeakable horrors every day.

Though I suspect that acetaminophen might not be enough in this case, and they use a stronger drug with proven effect of easing emotional pain: ethanol.

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