My concern is that you are not being careful enough with your words to ensure the reader picks up what your trying to communicate.
For example, “I don’t believe that empathy is the sole cause” shortly followed by “it is the root”. Those are contradictory statements. Perhaps you could have said “it is one of the roots of tribe formation”
I honestly also do not understand what you mean by “emotional concern”. Are you saying that someone “has a preference for others to be well, but only if they are in their in-group”?
By “emotional concern”, I intended to convey that you feel an emotional impulse in response to how someone else feels; you are physically/emotionally upset by seeing someone suffering, and you are made physically/emotionally joyful by seeing someone succeeding.
My concern is that you are not being careful enough with your words to ensure the reader picks up what your trying to communicate.
For example, “I don’t believe that empathy is the sole cause” shortly followed by “it is the root”. Those are contradictory statements. Perhaps you could have said “it is one of the roots of tribe formation”
I honestly also do not understand what you mean by “emotional concern”. Are you saying that someone “has a preference for others to be well, but only if they are in their in-group”?
By “emotional concern”, I intended to convey that you feel an emotional impulse in response to how someone else feels; you are physically/emotionally upset by seeing someone suffering, and you are made physically/emotionally joyful by seeing someone succeeding.