A short spoken monologue (YouTube) arguing that empathy, like sincerity, cannot be faked; the speaker uses an anecdote about their sister's debate joke to show that while one might fake sincerity, empathy by definition must be authentic.
The interesting thing about the word empathy, My sister always used to have a joke that she used in debates, which was, sincerity is your finest asset. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. But the thing with empathy, empathy is like sincerity. You can't fake it. It's authentic. It is, by definition, authentic. And that's the only reason that that other one is a joke, because you know that you can't fake it and you can't fake empathy.
