Another Valuable Piece of Information to Help Make the World a Better Place

This must be Number Three.

A friend wrote: " Empathy is a by-gone quality. Empathy is a quality I wanted my children to acquire--much talked about between my husband and I when they were tots. I was convinced (and remain so) that if you aren't naturally like that you can be taught the quality-both my kids are--who knows what came with or what was learned--but at least I know we made the effort."

It occured to me this morning as I was lying in bed reading a mediocre book called "In the Casa Azul," that empathy is a quality that a person can't have if he or she is a brutal dictator, violent criminal, etc., etc.* If children were raised to be empathetic, and if in fact empathy is acquired that way (I believe it is), then people couldn't fail to be concerned about others. Maybe this is a point in favor of social-education -- not sure, however.

*I had plenty of brain-juice idle while I read THAT book. It had to do SOMETHING.