Against Empathy

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I was at home one splendid morning a couple of years back, maintaining a strategic distance from work and surfing the Web, when I found out about the slaughter in Newtown, Connecticut. The first reports sounded dreadful however not strangely so—somebody had been taken shots at a school—yet bit by bit the subtleties came in, and soon I discovered that Adam Lanza had killed his mom in her bed at around nine in the first part of the day and afterward gone to SandyHook Elementary School and killed twenty little youngsters and six adults. Then he killed himself. There’s a ton to be said about what persuaded Lanza to do such a horrific thing, yet here I am keen on the responses of all of us. My better half wanted to go to our own kids’ school and take them home. She fought the temptation—our children were young people, and regardless of whether they were in primary school, she knew that this would have neither rhyme nor reason. Be that as it may, I comprehended the motivation.