How can we explain human cruelty? Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has always wanted to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In his book Zero Degrees of Empathy, he proposes a radical shift, turning the focus away from evil and on to the central factor, empathy. Where do we lie on the empathy spectrum and what can it tell us about ‘the problem of evil’?
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