Without empathy human would not have live so long time, it's the base of our society/family/clan !
Appeal to tradition. Just because we might have needed empathy before in order to survive, that doesn't mean that we need it today. Furthermore, just because it might have been useful before that doesn't mean that it is useful today.You're wrong, lol. Empathy it's one of the most important principles of humanism. I very doubt that you would change your residence in humanistic country (as i know - Austria) for USSR or Third Reich
yeah, it was two empires which were built on principles of rationalism. Also, there existed many "good" organisations with members without empathy. NKVD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD) or Schutzstaffel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel)
People without (i mean they don't have such trait) empathy it's mostly maniacs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy for example. The man who didn't fill any empathy for his victims and any guilt. Quote from wikipedia:
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Psychopathy is a personality disorder partly characterized by antisocial and aggressive behaviors, as well as emotional and interpersonal deficits including shallow emotions and a lack of remorse and empathy.
BUT! I agree with you that we can't have empathy for criminals.
My opinion: actmyname is very honest with his feedbacks. Merit traders and other criminals will butthurt anyway, 'cause they don't have empathy