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RE: Empathy Is Bullshit
You can care for someone and still not feel empathy. Caring is more or less self-interest for your own social experience. It has nothing to so with empathy.
I don't think sociopathy exist. If it does then yes, we are all sociopaths. The question is always "in regards to whom".
Trying, however incompletely and clumsily, to mirror in your head how somebody you know might feel, by observing well, could make you better at finding out what is wrong, enabling you to care better. But I will admit that is perhaps not the usual definition of "empathy".
Dogs do the exact same thing. Babies also do it. If they see their mom in distress they also cry but it doesn't mean they have empathy. We trained dogs to be perfect mirrors of us. This is why they seem so "human" sometimes