You don’t need empathy to love your neighbour, you just need to choose to do so. This is one of the central tenets of Christianity. This story reminds me of Sc

You don’t need empathy to love your neighbour, you just need to choose to do so. This is one of the central tenets of Christianity. This story reminds me of Scott’s essay I can tolerate anything except the outgroup [1]. I am partial to Father Brown’s argument that it doesn’t count if you only forgive the people you like. That’s just tribalism, which humans are naturally inclined toward. The hard thing is to forgive (or indeed to offer anything of worth to) people you don’t like. [1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...