Empathy is, I take it, a human value. Chimps can also be empathetic.
> It would be almost as exceptional for a human not to have the inherent
capacity to do so.
>(Here you confuse un-utilised capacity for absence of capacity.)
Well, no, someone born without a brain stem does not have the capacity to share human values, or to even conceptualize of any values whatsoever.
-- Luke