Do bigots just lack imagination? | Oliver Burkeman

Empathy requires mental gymnastics at the best of times. Empathy for whole categories of people requires Olympic-level skillsIt is usually seen as a depressing paradox about human beings that we find it easier to sympathise with one person’s suffering than with that of thousands: Stalin probably never really said “one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic” – but he was right all the same. It’s not much of a paradox, though. It makes sense: each of