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Even mice have more humanity than Trump, Musk, and the GOP.

The article starts with an epigraph, a quote from Captain

Gustav Gilbert, the U.S. Army psychologist, assigned to observe the Nazi defendants of the Nuremberg trials.

He writes, in my work with the defendants at Nuremberg, I was searching for the nature of evil,

and I now think I've come close to defining it.

A lack of empathy.

It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men.

You don't expect moral leadership from mice.

And yet in a recent study, rodents showed more empathy, urgency,

and compassion for strangers than the men currently shaping our nation's future.

While lab mice display empathy by resuscitating unconscious cage maids,

Trump and Musk gleefully slash food aid, housing support, and global relief efforts,

all cheered on by a right-wing movement that now sees

empathy as a fatal weakness. Back in the days when I was rostered by the state of Vermont as a

psychotherapist and ran a residential treatment facility for severely abused children,

one of the things I was painfully aware of was the lack of empathy, the ability to experience

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