Well to be fair he doesn’t really explain what he thinks the word sympathy means, but I can tell you that it doesn’t serve as a better term than empathy except in the case where you actually mean sympathy and not empathy. They are different concepts, lol. If you are talking about sympathy, that’s the better word to use. 😆 Apples and oranges. Though tangentially related, just like the fruits in their category.
He was also dead wrong that someone cannot feel what another person feels, or understand what they are feeling. That’s what empathy is and he’s claiming it isn’t real, which is false.
My impression is that he was just trying to be edgy and stretch the concept of the Explanatory Gap to its limits. That he was just trying to win philosophical points to seem like he’s nothing but factual, and it’s bullshit. I’m seeing right through that shit.
I like how the headline of that article already has him convicted before they have any evidence, or an actual conviction. But in the first paragraph they say he’s a suspect. Gotta get them clicks amirite.
I’m not right-wing, but I do believe in justice, and I know what that looks like. I haven’t seen it yet in this case.