Empathy has lately evolved into “selective empathy”—much for the worse. We’d do better to pursue “selfish empathy” instead.

The Morning News https://n.pr/2ImPsJO

It's strange to think of empathy—a natural human impulse—as fluctuating in this way, moving up and down like consumer confidence. But that's what happened. Young people just started questioning what my elementary school teachers had taught me.

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