No he hasn't he has warned against empathy that leads to harm (i.e. suicidal empathy). Over empathy is a bad character trait, it leads to being used/manipulated/weakness.
Not-harm: Hundreds of thousands of [mostly black/brown] children dying of preventable causes
Wait a minute... I'm seeing a pattern!
Not Harm: Billions being wasted on woke left wing propaganda abroad while local communities starved of funds
Second, you are definitely not a native-born American, are you? Are you a citizen at all? Do you even live in America?
Please share how long you’ve lived here in the US that you feel qualified to comment on the affairs of my country. Otherwise I’ll have to assume you’re the kind of very smart person who gets their cultural analysis from x dot com, sitting a continent away, and I’ll unfortunately have to just point and laugh.
In any case, no, that doesn't qualify you to speak on US affairs. Being well-informed and legitimately curious could qualify you, but you've made no claim and no evidence of those, have you?
No one is arguing for unchecked empathy, silly.
And the way Elon Musk acts, its very well in his line to be just a massive dick about everything.
of course you have to grow as a human being to have empathy and still not act on it, but it gives you a different mental model.
I don't see a homeless person as garbage, i see a homeless person as a human being who struggles and i accept that i can't help everyone.
Just stroke their fragile little ego and tell them they're big bad boys if they do X Y Z.