Empathy - Is It Declining?

There is some evidence that empathy might be changing, and not necessarily in a good way. A lot of this decline happened pretty recently, sort of since the turn of the twenty first century. There's no way to run an experiment where you have history occur multiple times or fiddle with different pieces of it to see what causes a decline in empathy. But certainly, you know, you can point to big shifts in the way that people live....