Secondly, what exactly is it about people with higher empathy that make them superior to others? And what type of empathy are we even talking about here, the shallow, loud fake kind, or the real thing? Because if it’s the real thing, that’s impossible to measure, and if it’s the fake loud kind, then that’s not a good indication of what you clearly think, which is that humans that show more empathy are better humans.
Finally, the fact that you would gatekeep the joy of raising kids to the people who arbitrarily got a better score on a meaningless test is crazy to me. This would be like if you had every person take an IQ test and only the top 20 percent of intelligence got to have kids. And even that wouldn’t be quite as terrible of an idea as this, because at least professionally administered IQ tests have a level of objectivity.
Basically, for someone suggesting only the most empathetic should have kids, you yourself clearly aren’t very empathetic.
You can't objectively measure empathy yet. That's why I said we'll probably going to need a couple decades of research. There has to be a 99.9+% accuracy on the lie-detector test for example to be able to use the result.
You say you can't measure empathy, but I think it really should be possible to do so, because since I can clearly distinguish when I'm feeling empathy or not, there simply has to be some measurable indications on the outside of this feeling. We just haven't really tried yet to measure empathy.
I'm of course talking about real empathy not fake empathy.
You ask me what makes people with high empathy superior, but I think I already answered that question in my first post. If everyone would have high empathy, then who is gonna hurt others, who is gonna kill others, who will wilfully destroy the earth? The point is that everyone will feel repulsed by these sort of actions, while there will be an abundance of good actions, ensuring the safety and happiness of mankind.
Telling people to not have kids is rough, I agree. But I didn't say they can't raise kids, just preferably not their own. The reason I say preferably is because I don't think you should force unempathetical people to not have kids, only discourage it, and reward it if they don't. While this might be harsh, the effect it will have on the future I think outweighs the down-sides.
Eugenics is not a new concept and has been tried. Read a history book
I know that, and I also know that because of that, the opinions about it will be mostly unfavourable. But just because in the past people have done unethical things in name of eugenics, doesn't mean there is no argument to make about it's potential.
Also the eugenic enthusiast in the past weren't focused on creating more empathy, but were focused on people with low intelligence and abnormalities in people. But clearing the world of unintelligent people won't make the world necessarily a better place.
So I think there is a big difference there.