>What are the problems preventing empathy from being as good as the abstractions? Empathy is a product of evolution, but the environment we spent millions of t

>What are the problems preventing empathy from being as good as the abstractions? Empathy is a product of evolution, but the environment we spent millions of thousands of years evolving in is quite different than the environment in which we now exist. I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that deliberate, logical consideration of the optimal manner to act in a particular situation could produce more effective results than following what's essentially just an artifact of a selection process focused on making monkeys have many healthy, fertile babies.