Patience

It's a pity the parent's don't use this more often. I don't know what I'd do without it in my job as a teacher of 3 to 6 year olds. I'm using it all the time and get the direct feedback how well it works. But sadly, the human capacity to feel empathy can also be crushed by indoctrination. Children who are e. g. raised in an environment where it is constantly hammered into their heads that certain groups of people are "the enemy" who has to be destroyed, are not likely to develop empathy toward these individuals as fellow humans. Especially infamous was the propaganda used by the Hitler regime in labeling those not belonging to the allegedly "superior Arian race" as "sub-human", even as "vermin". The cruel intention was to 'remove' the idea in people's minds that we are all fellow human beings. Yes, unfortunately people are very suggestive in terms of what they are taught. Isn't there a song from "South Pacific" about that? You have to be taught to hate. Most people do go along with their culture, some out of fear, some out of belief. But Nazi Germany and now the Taliban and portions of the Middle East show us that people are capable of monstrous acts if they are taught that certain groups are evil. The huge cultural differences certainly suggest that whatever component of empathy may have genetic influences (and some psychologists think it does) is pretty weak compared to the power of cultural learning. I agree, people can be very suggestive in terms of what they are taught - particularly when their teacher deliberately sets out to manipulate them. To take the subject back to Molyneux, he teaches his followers to hate their parents because they are "evil", and leads them to "defoo", to cut off from their parents and other family members. He even pulled the same trick on his wife, Christina. In case you haven't already seen it, you can read about Christina and another example on FDRLiberated: http://www.fdrliberated.com/?p=5738