ARE DEMANDS FOR EMPATHY ATTEMPTED THEFT? If one must empathize with something in

ARE DEMANDS FOR EMPATHY ATTEMPTED THEFT?

If one must empathize with something in order to be coerced into action, isn’t that just theft?

I have been struggling with this idea on and off for years. But I can’t find anything that anyone else has written about it.

However, from Freud onward, it’s pervasive.

Trying to read a book by Woolfe. And it’s like Heidegger: bait you into an empathic reaction so that you can be deceived into involunary consent.

What’s the difference between giving you a drug that increases your agreeablness (oxytocin), telling a story as an empathic and persuasive narrative, and making an argument about producing one outcome or another?

Isn’t the only honest and transparent and voluntary choice, the latter?