You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring.

The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are.

Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone.

When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.

There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.