My impression is that you are highlighting phoney empathy as a problem. If I'm wrong- I'd love to know it. I agree with that idea. But I'm coming to the real

My impression is that you are highlighting phoney empathy as a problem. If I'm wrong- I'd love to know it. I agree with that idea. But I'm coming to the realization that empathy is critical and most people do not practice it. This last election educated me about the number of people who espouse empathy and then follow it up with tantrums about how if you don't also hate $Candidate, then you are a racist sexist homophobe. It's phony empathy- or empathy when it's not inconvenient that is dangerous. It leads to moral self licensing- where terrible behavior or failure to do something meaningful is justified by the fact that a) people they disagree with are bad and b) they did that empathetic sounding tweet that one time memes should not pop by the way- they're a powerful indicator of the mental self-reliance and thoughtfulness of the speaker. I don't want them to die. I want them to live on so I know who to avoid.