His intensity forces our concentration, though, unlike Neil Young, he never extends empathy, only demands it.
Like many women of color and unlike Dr. Ford, she wasn't extended empathy or permitted any vulnerability.
The book is also an extended argument with the philosopher Peter Singer, who bases his case for animal rights in part on the fact that some animals are more cognitively capable than the intellectually disabled people to whom we already extend our empathy.
If you are genuinely unable to apply your imagination and extend your empathy far enough – and you don't have to do it all at once; little by little will suffice, but you must get there – then you are a sociopath, and we should all be protected from your actions.
l hope that gay people will never forget what it means to be the "other" -- black, poor -- and will extend their empathy to the struggles of those who still suffer from all kinds of injustice.
Here he extends that empathy to the winos, the crackpots and the dispossessed, those ghosts who live to haunt the streets of a depressed city.
Extending your empathy beyond that requires effort.
I have found myself questioning why I am sometimes unable to extend the same empathy towards modern-day criminals that I do to characters such as Jack Sheppard.
Will their empathy extend far enough for them to make personal sacrifices in order to avert the kind of environmental catastrophes likely to result in the next century from global warming and the increase in the world's population to 9 billion by the year 2050?
