Add the Against Empathy Authors
Criticisms
Empathy is emotional contagion and has problems.
Empathy is irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices
If speaker is in pain/suffering and the Empathizer will co suffer
Empathy is affect sharing
Empathy is biased
We empathize with those whose needs are close by and similar to ourselves
Response
comes from the individualistic mindset
Wholistic empathy address the global scale