People who get excited to help people come in two flavors. Cognitive empathy and actual empathy. The cognitive empathy identify where they should have empathy to gain hero worship. Real empathy is the kind that makes the hard decisions that are terrible now but much better in the long run. <br><br>Risking the young for the sake of the elderly is cognitive empathy, because a truly empathetic person would find the reality that extinction lies down the wrong path.