For the most part, people use "empathy" to mean everything good. For instance, many medical schools have courses in empathy. But if you look at what ….

Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased..

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it..

My younger son told me nobody uses email anymore. I'm this old fogie with my email. I don't know what I'm supposed to communicate with now - SnapChat?.

People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals, ….

What I mean by "empathy" is putting yourself in other people's shoes, feeling what they feel..

Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part t….

I think we should really discourage this sort of empathic engagement when it comes to making moral decisions. I think we should focus on something li….

The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth ….

I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from..

In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity an….

When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb Syria, he drew our attenti….

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody with….

When you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something is interesting, it fo….

Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people..

I have two teenage sons, and they're both surviving, thriving, and having a great time, and they're always on social media..

I have huge admiration for people who think like the effective altruist, who try to rationally think about how they can change the world for the bett….

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and….

I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in fav….

We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they reall….

It has been a period where people have been far nicer to one another in every possible way. I'm not saying it's because we're dropping our empathy th….