In Case Against empathy he argues that empathy is a poor moral guide as it leads to bad moral decisions. We will be favoring „our kind”.

“I'd like to see the same thing with regard to overt displays of empathy. So I would like to see that, when a politician comes up and says, I want to talk about the health care plan, and says, I want to read you a letter I got from an eight-year-old who told me the story about her father. I want to audit the crowd to boo and to shout, don't treat us like children.”