Empathy is evidently a freak talent, the sixth sense that
not only does 80%* of humanity not possess, they do not
even suspect the existence of. So a compassionate
society cannot be founded on the regular exercise of
this talent. However, i don't know why it shouldn't be
possible to train people to regard it as a respectable
fiction, like so many others; & for those who actually have
it, their revealing the secret can do, after all, no harm.
(--Except to themselves: a strange torment it is, for example,
not to be able to hate wholeheartedly, when you need to!)

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(*Alright--70% of women & 90% of men.)