You can not have empathy but not want your social structures crumbling around you. There are pure sociological benefits to socialization and relationships, and

You can not have empathy but not want your social structures crumbling around you. There are pure sociological benefits to socialization and relationships, and it may be that the effort of going out of her way to foster those relationships is evaluated as being worth the effort in the benefit it brings. But yes, that aspect of the interview was extremely interesting, and I wish the interviewer had asked about that directly (essential asked "what do you get out of your relationships"?).