The Dirty Secret of Empathy

In a stand off, it is really hard to empathize with the enemy. But that doesn't mean empathy is absent from the scene. People are feeling strong empathy, but it's selective, only for their own team. A terrorist facing a huge, powerful army draws on another powerful weapon, empathy. This is why fritz called his book the dark sides of empathy. In my generation, we thought of empathy as the big, warm sun lighting the path to peace for us all. Now it operates like a torch. You shine it on your friends and use it to burn your enemies. If you er feet into this division more and you let it happen, willit become so strong that