The idea that the more you understand someone the less you have to empathize with them sounds right, but it just lowers the lower bound of empathy. You can still choose to add more empathy on top if you want to.
Actually, you can decide not to empathize with people you don’t understand as well, but then you don’t have any decent method of predicting them and they end up looking innately evil or something.
The idea that the more you understand someone the less you have to empathize with them sounds right, but it just lowers the lower bound of empathy. You can still choose to add more empathy on top if you want to.
Actually, you can decide not to empathize with people you don’t understand as well, but then you don’t have any decent method of predicting them and they end up looking innately evil or something.