 The choice of compassion made a great deal of sense given the state of the empirical literature. There are numerous studies that have been done over the past sixty years on helping behavior, in contrast to other kinds of morally relevant behavior which might pertain to other virtues. Nevertheless, Harman and Doris did not take the conclusion of their argument to apply just to one virtue, and so expected that future studies in other areas of morality, when combined with whatever studies we currently have, would tell a similar story about absent virtue.