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"When we rely on empathy to make moral decisions, he says, we end up prioritizing the person whose suffering we can easily relate to over that of any number of others who seem more distant."

This article is not really discussing empathy, but rather limited or immature empathy, and sentimentalism. True empathy embraces not just the "victim", but also the perpetrator, bystanders, and others who might be affected. True empathy is about relating to those that are not easy to relate to.