Got Empathy?

In the P. K. Dick’s science fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the world is populated with human beings and androids. The androids are so lifelike, there is only one way to distinguish them from humans—give them an empathy test. The testers believed that only humans had empathy. Hate requires that we extinguish our empathy. Sometimes that’s unbelievably easy to do. I hate that, or as the old joke goes, I hate hate.