The Pope is combating the complete takeover of society by free markets, the resulting death of empathy, and ultimately the soullessness of our current culture.
At least some evidence suggests that exposure to animal cruelty, whether in person or by viewing a film, may desensitize viewers to suffering and the resulting loss of empathy may facilitate or provoke violence against humans.
The participants who had demonstrated significant positive change quantitatively typically described that this change occurred as a result of increased empathy, hope, and/or openness (for themselves and/or for others living with BD) (see Table 6).
Much of this may be a result of an empathy gap -- few politicians actually see the people affected by their programs, especially when they remained ensconced in D.C.
Two of these three, impairments in social interaction and in communication with other people, are the results of autists lacking empathy or, in technical jargon, a "theory of mind".
For this study, we have presented the results of overall virtual empathy on a four-point scale (Deficient = 33 66; Basic = 67 82; Median = 83 98; Optimal = 99 132), after checking that this recoding had not affected its validity and reliability.
People in different socioeconomic strata are living ever more different lives, with dangerous results for society: erosion of empathy, widening of rifts and undermining of meritocracy.
These results confirm the role of empathy in regulating social interactions and our ability to adapt our behavior to others' emotional state (e.g., [51]), as shown, for example, by the well-known literature on emotional contagion (e.g., [52]).
Also, artificiality of the laboratory environment has to be considered when interpreting results as the induction of empathy in the real world is likely to be a complex process [ 73].
This may, self-evidently, result in a lack of empathy and respect for their dignity and humanity potentially putting their safety at risk, especially if force is used against them".
