Whenever someone is against empathy, they direct me to Paul Bloom. His book, Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, is worth a read. Bloom, a Yale professor, criticizes empathy, ...

Empathy heals and empowers while sympathy largely disempowers and often creates a victim mentality in the other person. In the bulk of studies Bloom cites, the subject is put in a position to save and ...

The argument that empathy is at the root of violence, cruelty, and callousness is flawed and irrational on multiple levels, yet it is a catalyst for much needed clarification about what empathy ...