Letter: Show a bit of empathy

Letter: Show a bit of empathy

Writing about diction, Mark Twain offered that the difference between the wrong word and the right word was the difference between a firefly and a lightning strike.

Letter to the Editor: Is empathy a threat to, or the foundation of, society?

Elon Musk, on Joe Rogan’s Feb. 28 podcast, announced, “The fundamental weakness of Western Civilization is empathy” (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elon-musk-empathy-quote/). While admitting “you should care about other people,” he stressed “you need to have empathy for civilization.” Musk treats civilization, or society, as a thing above and apart from the people who compose it. He seems to believe that […] The post Letter to the Editor: Is …