There seems to be a general tendency here to conflate ‘empathy’ with ‘the particular (biased, inconsistent) ways humans tend to (attempt to) practise empathy’. The latter is obviously far less capable of constituting a basis for morality than the former, on just about any reasonable construal of ‘morality’ (another term the ambiguous employment of which obviates the usefulness of many an argument on such topics...).
There seems to be a general tendency here to conflate ‘empathy’ with ‘the particular (biased, inconsistent) ways humans tend to (attempt to) practise empathy’. The latter is obviously far less capable of constituting a basis for morality than the former, on just about any reasonable construal of ‘morality’ (another term the ambiguous employment of which obviates the usefulness of many an argument on such topics...).