Empathy is evil?

[patphil]

27. Empathy is what holds society together.

We can't survive as individuals, or even in family groups. Tribes can survive, but it requires a degree of empathy just to reach that point.
Without empathy, there's nothing to hold us together; humanity would never rise above small groups of hunter/gatherers.

It's evident that a lack of empathy has resulted in the whole of human history being just one big war for dominance.
Empathy is simply a way that love is expressed. A loveless society is doomed to fail; to tear itself apart in endless conflict, and I see less and less love in the interactions between people around the world every day.
It's not hard to see where we're headed as a species, and it doesn't look good.