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You are referring to "success", in a capital sense ? and basing your theory of being better mating partners based on this?

I was going with the Family Feud definition of success, i.e. "Money, Power, Family, Sex."  Where empathy does play a strong part in obtaining these specific goals, based on a broad observation those that excel in these areas their rationality outweighs their emotions.

I would think that mankind would slowly evolve to lessen the amount of empathy plays on decision making.

Perhaps I dare even say that everyone is born with some degree of empathy, others are just so rational minded that it plays no part in their decision making.  In the end, we are all in it for ourselves... or are we?

If we didn't have empathy, The population of earth would be drastically reduced. Mothers would abandon their newborns or kill them. People would not treat disease, No one would care for elders.

You realize this?

by batshitcrazy

If we didn't have empathy, The population of earth would be drastically reduced. Mothers would abandon their newborns or kill them. People would not treat disease, No one would care for elders.

 

You realize this?

 It wouldn't necessarily be this bad, but yes empathy is a huge social cohesive.

It would be this bad. That is why people without empathy, cluster b's, make up a minority of the population.

If they were on an island,they would die out. 

for one, they wont all kill their children. the majority wont.

by batshitcrazy

It would be this bad. That is why people without empathy, cluster b's, make up a minority of the population.

If they were on an island,they would die out. 

 It would become an island of borderlines and dysempathic sociopaths. It would we one hell of an island. It would make Mogadishu, Somalia look like a paradise vacation resort on steroids by comparison. Though they'd still survive.

by batshitcrazy

If we didn't have empathy, The population of earth would be drastically reduced. Mothers would abandon their newborns or kill them. People would not treat disease, No one would care for elders.

 

You realize this?

 You make this sound as though it's a bad thing.

by batshitcrazy

If we didn't have empathy, The population of earth would be drastically reduced. Mothers would abandon their newborns or kill them. People would not treat disease, No one would care for elders.

 

You realize this?

Yes. There will be no sharing of various inventions either. Without care a human wouldn't make it to the point of higher learning due to a society based on impulsive anger, distrust, and the need for primal survival instincts regularly amongst their own. For any species this is self destructive and in this case empathy itself is logical for the sake of progress/existence.

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Complexities aside, Empathy is simply "higher understanding" for what matters most, and no it is not for the inanimate. It would only serve a predator who lacks empathy, to actually have it, for obvious reasons.

Logic is often considered to be separated from emotion as if we cannot have one without the other, and when asked to let go of what we've been told, we already know down to the core this is incorrect, because we are indeed conscious of both. Those who are quick to debate logic is superior are driven by emotion themselves, to go against that, they would have to remain silent, and in effect they will find themselves more lifeless while resentfully denying truth.