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That's not actually impossible.
There exists drugs which are called "empathogens", as in "generating empathy".
Psilocybin, LSD, MDMA, they all belong to that group.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathogen%E2%80%93entactogen
I'm strongly of the opinion that if all hateful billionaires and other arseholes were made to get a little empathy forced down their throat, we'd be much better off.
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I am pretty sure some famous people are famously into microdosing, but I think that’s besides the point—empathy is just knowing or imagining how someone else feels, sociopaths can imagine this just fine and use it in different ways