In her TedTalk, Aspen Baker highlighted the many areas where we fail to show compassion for one another, especially on the sensitive issue of abortion. Her views on empathy directly align with those proposed by Jamison and Chen in their articles. Baker described her work at Exhale, a hotline support for men and women battling emotional and physical struggles, as “finding a way to shift conflict to conversation” (Baker). Baker uses this technique to help calm down people in a time of great conflict in their lives. Adrian Chen suggested we do the same thing in his essay, “Unfollow.” Chen told about how Megan Phelps-Roper, a devout member of the Westboro Baptist Church, was convinced to leave the church by C.G., the one person in her life who was willing to listen her views and not condemn her for her actions and beliefs. C.G. was able to show empathy through peaceful conversation and was able to change someone’s life for the better. Baker also said that we need to able to listen and share stories if we want to form a connection, show empathy, and support people in need. Leslie Jamison used this very technique at the Morgellon’s disease conference. She listened to the stories people had to share, no matter how absurd some of them seemed, and then shared a common experience. By showing the people at the conference that she genuinely cared about and believed what they had to say, she gained their trust and helped people feel better about their current situation. By sharing her story about the bot fly in her leg, she helped them feel a little bit normal in a life where one thing has completely consumed them. Whether or not Jamison believed in the validity of Morgellon’s disease was independent from the fact that by showing basic human empathy she was able to improve of lives of those who have little, if any, hope for a better future. Baker is another real world example of the positive effects of empathy that Chen told of and Jamison demonstrated.