"You can increase your empathy by reading more and interacting with people who aren’t like you."

I love to interact with other people and try to issue a cheery greeting to all, including strangers as I walk down the street. Most people smile and respond in kind, and I have brief enjoyable interactions with strangers all the time. It's one of the pleasures of living in a city. We always find that we have much more in common than we have differences.

There is one group of people that are not like me that I don't interact with, and those are the people that walk around with earbuds in staring at a screen all the time, ignoring the world and the people around them. I have zero empathy for them, and if I were to see one of those zombies fall down an open manhole I'd chortle with glee.