Unger spoke of the need for empathy with audiences, while Voigt suggested focusing on storytelling in the most engaging format possible.
A good way of dispatching the need for empathy is to find any label that can in some way read: "Not like me".
It's interesting to hear you make that distinction between the rigour of the arguments you have to put across, and the need for empathy.
I've enjoyed introducing my daughters to the likes of The Simpsons, David Bowie and Singin' in the Rain, but it's been just as fulfilling to follow their lead and immerse myself in a work of art that belongs to them, especially when it's a movie about the need for empathy and maintaining strong bonds.
The executive director of the Sydney Institute, Gerard Henderson, said that the case demonstrated "the need for empathy in public policy".
The second approach emphasises the need for empathy – for talking people around – no matter how repugnant their views.
They might have disagreed with the need for empathy, but they never suspected that empathy precluded merit.
The ongoing presidential election with Donald Trump stoking fear of immigrants from Mexico to the Middle East also seems to have underscored the need for empathy in the classroom.
Our devices might seem like they're connecting us, but they're really disconnecting us from other people, without whom it's hard to activate our hard-wired need for empathy.
Columnist E.J. Dionne tells the story of a talk he gave during the hostile election season of the critical need for "empathy" as we discover the meaning of what really makes America great.
