![]() It muddles our judgment and, ironically, often leads to cruelty. Far from helping us to improve the lives of others, empathy is a capricious and irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices. In Against Empathy, Bloom reveals empathy to be one of the leading motivators of inequality and immorality in society. ![]() Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues Yale researcher Paul Bloom. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don’t have enough of it. ![]() ![]() We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. ![]()
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