“Tenderness cut off from its source ends in terror“ “In 1961, Flannery O’Connor warned that tenderness cut off from truth ends in the gas chamber. Sixty years later we call that untethered feeling ’empathy’ — and we call it a virtue. It isn’t. Drawing on Paul Bloom’s Against Empathy, Aquinas on the passions, and the… Read More Flannery O’Connor Warned That False Empathy “Ends in the Gas Chamber”