Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes

We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us