It is easy to see why so many people view empathy as a powerful force for goodness and moral change. It is easy to see why so many believe that the only problem with empathy is that too often we don’t have enough of it.
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I used to believe this as well. But now I don’t. Empathy has its merits
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I am against empathy, and one of the goals of this book is to persuade you to be against empathy too.
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This is a radical position, but it’s not that radical. T
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It’s that if we want to be good and caring people, if we want to make the world a better place, then we are better off without empathy.
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Or to put it more carefully, we are better off without empathy in a certain sense. S
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cognitive empathy” is overrated as a force for good.
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hallmark of the successful psychopath and can be used for cruelty and exploitation.