You won't have time for empathy or compassion that panders to recklessness disregard of others. You'll be too busy trying to survive once the finally get it to waste the time or energy on them.

They're signing our death warrants now. They've gotten all the empathy and compassion in the world while realists have been demonized and maligned.

Why don't realists ever get any empathy or compassion from opptomists?