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Empathy merely means being able to feel what it would be like to be the other person. It doesn't mean you won't curbstomp his ass. In fact, it can easily help you curbstomp his ass to know how he feels. Empathy is far different from sympathy.It's nuanced but that stance isn't necessarily wrong. Being empathetic (capable of understanding how someone feels) doesn't mean being sympathetic and it doesn't mean you allow your enemies to trample you.
Only a fool or a psychopath would not want to have empathy, and in fact, the lack of empathy is one of the psychopath's serious disabilities.