Ok, now this is actually really weird. You’re saying that the only reason you can think of to want to feel empathy toward other people… is to make yourself happier…?
I do most things in my life to try to make myself happier. (And I think this is the revealed preference of most people, even if they don’t admit it, because being seen as “selfish” is sometimes socially not tolerated well.)
(But I don’t have a fully fleshed out moral philosophy, and I would not feel confident in asserting that “I do everything only to make myself happier”. E.g. I do notice myself being nicer to people in general than what would naively be predicted under the “100% selfish” model.)
I do most things in my life to try to make myself happier. (And I think this is the revealed preference of most people, even if they don’t admit it, because being seen as “selfish” is sometimes socially not tolerated well.)
(But I don’t have a fully fleshed out moral philosophy, and I would not feel confident in asserting that “I do everything only to make myself happier”. E.g. I do notice myself being nicer to people in general than what would naively be predicted under the “100% selfish” model.)