system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do we cringe?

If we see someone hurt themselves, or embarrass themselves, we end up cringing . What's the point in our faces automatically contorting into something so retarded looking?
gpt
What you are describing is empathy. It is a psychological reaction which pretty much relates someone else's body to our own. It exists so that humans could work together better and to have us avoid killing each other in most cases.
Edit: Well, the face reaction is really just us putting ourselves into that persons shoes, and reacting how they would.