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It is a weak modifier, but I get your point. I just see a lot of people (often without empathy) using it to attack empathetic people. Especially the right wing in a lot of countries, are trying to tarnish good and ethical words, so that you can’t use those against their hate and violent speech and actions.

It is. And I would really like, if people would nuance it more. Calling something empathy when it’s clearly not, or positivity, when it’s clearly not, is just confusing everyone.

But what you describe is not an empathic person, but someone with poor boundaries and maybe a fragile ego. That’s not the same.

If you use your empathy to being evil, it’s not the empathy that is the problem, but you being evil.

If you have empathy, but no conscience, it’s not the empathy that is the problem, but the lack of conscience.

Could you define how overly empathetic people act?

There’s no such thing as toxic empathy. If it’s hurting others, it’s not empathy.

He did not. But it’s most likely both.