I don't really see how calling me a "whiny millennial" or having "zero empathy for the likes of me" disproves my point; I still don't think that having broad empathy for the plights of others is a weakness and I don't see how pointing to a conspiracy about the global south really disputes that.
Also, "pathological empathy"? Really? Because I was going to let someone use my phone (on speaker) to call their mom? Give me a break; if I had "pathological empathy" I wouldn't be a yuppie living in the United States buying items produced by dubious labor in China.
I just want to be a decent person, and follow the fairly typical "treat others how you want to be treated". If I were in a position where I needed to call my mom and I didn't have my phone, I would like to live in a world where people help me with that. I don't think it requires "pathological empathy" to want to try and just be a decent person. Yes, in hindsight I probably should have just pointed them to a public phone or a police station or something.
I don't think (and never claimed to) have a "moral highground", whatever the hell that means, I just get annoyed when people brag about how unempathetic they'd be in situations they've never been tested on.