> (Also, you are right, our country has lost almost all sense of empathy) From the outside, it looks worse than that. It seems more like the US has developed a

> (Also, you are right, our country has lost almost all sense of empathy) From the outside, it looks worse than that. It seems more like the US has developed a weird active aversion to empathy, to the point where even enlightened self-interest gets rejected because it looks suspiciously like empathy.