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Guests who answer by signalling empathy instead of saying something substantive are a reason to turn a bit more against empathy.

Drawn from what Tyler Cowen said

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empathy Feeling what others feel: whether it makes better makers, leaders and people, or is a poor guide that should give way to compassion.

Does empathy make us better?under our view: Empathy is a poor guide: it narrows to the few and the near, and people overrate their own

What Tyler Cowen actually said

  1. Tyler Cowen Economist at George Mason University
    The signaling-empathy answers I find quite uninteresting, and I think a lot of my listeners do, too. Yet people will just keep on doing this, and I get frustrated. Then I think, “Well, Tyler, you should turn a bit more against empathy for this reason.” And I think that’s correct.

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