Can you teach empathy to someone who has no empathy?

Puh difficult question. I personally think that every person is born with a fundamental empathy capacity. Life, the different stations in this and, above all, the decisions made with conscious will, then shape you for your “me-feeling”. In addition, there is also influence through your environment so parents, family, friends and the many coincidences you have in life. In general, man is an adaptable species and thus he can learn everything.

But this process will need time and an intensive care of this person.

So the dark triad of psychopathy, narcissism and also machiavellism are, in my opinion, “learned” even if we certainly have a genetic share through our various ancestors in us, that is, a “preposition” for that if you want.

In addition, I think that very soon our technical achievements are so high that, for example, with VR and haptic suits, we can represent any situation in a physical experience – let’s see how a psychopath reacts when he is the same as an example. I think that could lead to a “healthy” effect relatively quickly. But it’s just my lay opinion on this issue.