> It's as if you are assuming people who commit crimes, or even people who get sent to jail (they are not a perfect venn diagram) aren't empathetic human beings

> It's as if you are assuming people who commit crimes, or even people who get sent to jail (they are not a perfect venn diagram) aren't empathetic human beings. Empirically speaking, as compared to the general population. Prisoners are less empathetic. Empathic concern is highly correlated with agreeableness and agreeableness is lower in prisoners than the general population. "Results of this study showed that big five personality traits accounted for 19.4%, 18.1%, 30.2% of the variance in three dimensions of empathy, namely, perspective taking, empathic concern and personal distress, respectively. Specifically, agreeableness had a strong positive association with empathic concern..." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5302826/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5302826/ "Both tests found that while prisoners were lower in agreeableness and extraversion than non-prisoners they were also substantially higher in conscientiousness than the general population..." https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody-else/201612/the-paradox-conscientious-prisoners https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody-els...