No, i'm not saying the world is getting less empathetic. I am saying that in order for humanity to survive as more people interact with more people it is necess

No, i'm not saying the world is getting less empathetic. I am saying that in order for humanity to survive as more people interact with more people it is necessary for empathy to increase at a similar rate and scale. Natural human empathy has very, very low limits. You can only really care about 7 or 8 people at any given time. The rest is social constructs that allow a sort of abstract empathy where in-groups are gradually expanded. Human civilization simply doesn't work without this kind of social construct. We degrade to feces-slinging apes pretty quickly.