VERY well written. I'm very impressed by his understanding of his own righteousness. That's a level of introspection you hardly ever see. Also, as you say, you hardly ever see a comment stream that good either.
Still, for my part, I often feel that empathy is overrated because of an instrumentation problem. You're empathising with your impression of someone and that might not be as much of of them as you think: there might be quite a bit of you projected in there. Hence, I would prefer Sarek of Vulcan's primary question "How can I help you?" to Jesus' primary exclamation "I love you!": as nifty as that exclamation is.
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Still, for my part, I often feel that empathy is overrated because of an instrumentation problem. You're empathising with your impression of someone and that might not be as much of of them as you think: there might be quite a bit of you projected in there. Hence, I would prefer Sarek of Vulcan's primary question "How can I help you?" to Jesus' primary exclamation "I love you!": as nifty as that exclamation is.