I feel like empathy is used in confusing ways in the last 10 years or so. I consider empathy to be no different than theory of mind, a faculty all apes share, t

I feel like empathy is used in confusing ways in the last 10 years or so. I consider empathy to be no different than theory of mind, a faculty all apes share, that is, we can model other people's states of mind. But whether most people are sympathetic, that is, in the strict etymological sense of the term, feel or identify with another's suffering, is a rather contextual, diverse phenomenon. The C-level and oligarchs of the world tends to be highly empathic, hence their politicking skills, persuasion, observational skills and general theatre, but not particularly sympathetic. Twitter is a mix of demonstrations of high empathy/low sympathy and every other permutation