What is missing in this calculation, of course, is any empathy for those most intimately affected by the change.
Perpetrators rarely witness the emotional reaction of their victims, dampening any empathy they might feel.
Following are excerpts: ON EMPATHY The question of what role, if any, empathy should play in judging has emerged since Judge Sotomayor's nomination, in part because President Obama described it as a quality he sought in a justice.
It is possible that the autism spectrum condition group would therefore exhibit less empathy as a result of their partner profiles, even in the absence of any true empathy deficit.
"He's full of love, and you can become toughened to situations, but Peter never lost any compassion, any empathy, any of those nurturing qualities," says Catie Parry, former head of drama at Cefn Saeson, who has taken time out of her day at another local school to talk about her many years working with Jones.
"But I would say a lot of them don't have any empathy and at times they don't even understand that they don't.
They display a sense of aggrieved entitlement which over-rides any possibility of empathy with their victims; acquiring an arsenal of Kalashnikovs and grenade-launchers offers a feeling of power which they seldom experience in their everyday lives.
From the very start, the three criminals at the center of Paul Schrader's new film, "Dog Eat Dog," written by Matthew Wilder, and based on a novel by Edward Bunker, defy viewers to follow them to the end of their destinies with any degree of empathy.
