Elon Musk recently tweeted: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”
This is something only an evil psychopath would say. He’s planting seeds in the impressionable minds of his young followers—conditioning them to reject empathy so he and his autocratic friends can continue wreaking havoc on humanity without resistance.
But his claim couldn’t be further from the truth. Empathy is the foundation of human rights, the rule of law, and the innovation that has propelled civilizat…