Divide by Zero
The Living Force
Guess some have the empathy gene in spades while others either don't or actively suppress such. Because really bad images/facts disturb me so much, I try to avoid subjecting myself beyond what I think I can handle.
I guess the ultimate lesson of 3DSTS reality is what we're experiencing now - psychotic selfishness that knows no bounds and willingly inflicts unimaginable pain, suffering, and destruction on all living beings, our earth, our atmosphere and anything else that can be messed with. Who would have imagined that physicality could result in such horrific extremes!
It reminds me that empathy is selfish too because it does help survival and improves the environment socially.
If we looked narrowly, the empathy would be of our family, friends, immediate environment. This serves us in turn because we have to exist in that immediate environment.
In our case of not being able to tune out the rest of things beyond our immediate environment would point to a bigger scope/bigger picture of how we have to exist in the world and it's future.
Both serve self, by serving others. In the bigger picture case, it's much more difficult because a lot of things we cannot do much about! As the C's said that 4d is a level playing field, we can say that 3d is not a level playing field. So perhaps this wider form of empathy is much more conducive to survival in 4d and a disadvantage in this world where there is a lot of narrow empathy, like we see with the extreme left and right, religions, and so on. It is rewarded to empathize within the confines of a "tribe", even if that moves society to destroying others and itself!