Is Knowledge Bringing Empathy?

i like to think that knowledge brings ampathy. i would contend that when astronauts went to the moon and turned around and took a picture of planet earth with no borders, i would contend tha empathy on planet earth grew in some way. When we learn that the atoms that make up ourcelvs were manufactured in the cores of stars, ampathy grows because you realize the connectedness not just of all humans, but of all living creatures. There's a certain irony about looking for life out in the galaxy while at the same time you know that you're potentially destroying the potential for life here on planet earth. And so every time you go out and you study the universe, you learn something about