The Meek Shall Embrace the Earth

A lot of folks do feel its a virtue to feel sorry for others, because usually behind that is eri du somthing that easy. But we wouldn't have to think if ampathy guided us properly in some very specific conditions. It can also make us very dangerous. If you're very sensitive to an in group's claims, whatever they might be, that makes you very hostile to perceived out group members within your tribe. We'd bet be hard on them. So we can't be thinking that ympathy is an untrammelled virtue. There's no evidence for that whatsoever. The psychoanalysts knew this perfectly well as well,. when we were still wise enough to