ethical subjectivism of our modern culture of anarchic emotive morality and expressive individualism. There is now no consensus about what it is that should evoke our empathy and sympathy: the baby in the womb or the pregnant teenager whose life will be utterly disrupted by having a child? The transgender teen who wants to become a woman or his parents who fear he is making a terrible mistake? The ethic Rousseau articulates may be rooted in sentiment, but it is not quite the same as the emotionally driven ethical subjectivism we have today. On the contrary, Rousseau sees empathy as having a
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