So I guess you are defending living blindly and doing whatever you feel like doing, rather than actually thinking about what it makes sense to do. That does no

So I guess you are defending living blindly and doing whatever you feel like doing, rather than actually thinking about what it makes sense to do. That does not sound like a good strategy. It may lead you to being a totally self-sacrificial shmoo living in a fantasy world, like the woman profiled in the article. Or it may lead you to being a jihadist. Or it may lead you to advocating political ideas that are destructive (like, say, the Nazis). Man has the faculty of reason, let's use it. There is such a thing as empathy for other people or animals that is genuine, but you shouldn't sacrifice more important values for it. Similarly I like playing board games sometimes, but I don't choose to play them all day and impoverish myself.