Empathy can help us see their perspective and foster compassion, but that’s all it can do. It can’t guide us into making the right decisions or donning the wise, moral, or biblical position. Toxic empathy bullies us into believing that the unwise, immoral, and unbiblical position is actually the righteous one.
I won't pretend this is easy to swallow. It's not. When people act like perspective and compassion don't matter--and I know and love some who do--it actually drives me nuts. But logic cannot govern emotion. Therefore, neither can emotion govern or guide logic.
