Fernando’s Reviews > Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion – How Emotion Undermines Morality, Justice, and Good Policy > Status Update

Pamela Hieronymi puts it like this: “A past wrong against you, standing in your history without apology, atonement, retribution, punishment, restitution, condemnation, or anything else that might recognize it as a wrong, makes a claim. It says, in effect, that you can be treated in this way, and that such treatment is acceptable.”