Is empathy a less reliable basis for morality than people tend to assume?
A thread on empathy, morality, and autistic reasoning ♾️
Empathy works a bit like a spotlight. In its traditional sense, it often illuminates only a certain bit of the landscape (the bit that’s in front of us, or that we choose to see) but not all of it.
That's a problem if we confuse that with morality, or 'goodness'.
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