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RT Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن (@EveKeneinan)Thinking that "empathy is good" is like thinking "speech is good."Both are capacities that can be very good when used properly, but you can use speech to lie, and to threaten, to harm in a variety of ways.And empathy is like that too. It has narcissistic and sadistic and Machiavellian forms which are anything but good.I expressed this indirectly a few months ago by noting that "the best torturers have empathy."Of course they do. If they couldn't empathize with what you are ...