Perhaps you have been fortunate enough never to have known an empathy-less person up close and personal. I can’t say the same. Once you’ve known one, you recognize the signs. It hit me like a ton of bricks, when I was thinking about why Paul creeps me out to the core. It’s his lack of empathy. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.
The stunted ethics follow like thunder follows lightning. If you are your sole focus, your ethics will remain childish. It’s only by considering others that maturity and complexity enter into the ethical equation.
Btw, you are doing to me what you accuse me of doing to Paul. You are completely ignoring the case I laid out for adult ethical actions re Obamacare. Argue against the case I made, please, or let it drop.
“Perhaps you have been fortunate enough never to have known an empathy-less person up close and personal. I can’t say the same. Once you’ve known one, you recognize the signs.”
I’m more than happy to yeild to your superior intuition in these matters