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hashmap • yesterday at 7:19 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Absolutely not. The value of empathy is not "have empathy because empathy is good", it is in the pro-social outcomes. Empathy is wasted, and counterproductively so, on the non-empathetic, especially on the powerful and destructive. It is a peace treaty, much like tolerance.