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Nothing wrong with quoting it in a supportive fashion. It is an entirely reasonable take. Especially if you listen to the entire point he made, and not cherry pick the part that makes it sound bad (intentionally, of course)

If you are letting “empathy” drive your civilization to ruin, it is no longer empathy. That is the point.

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The claim that "empathy" is driving Western civilization to ruin is highly dubious and presented without evidence.

In contrast, we know that lack of empathy directly leads to atrocities:

> In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy. —Captain G. M. Gilbert

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