Koopje Zero Degrees of Empathy: A new theory of human cruelty. – Baron-Cohen, Simon.

Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has always wanted to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In this book he proposes a radical shift, turning the focus away from evil and on to the central factor, empathy. Unlike the concept of evil, he argues, empathy has real explanatory power. Putting empathy under the microscope he explores four new firstly, that we all lie somewhere on an empathy spectrum, from high to lo…