Letters to the Editor
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@Paul Dirks
the utter lack of empathy that seems to be a defining characteristic of thirty-somethings these days
I am going to call you out on that comment, as I've come to expect, quite frankly, better of you.
"Utter" lack of empathy is a "defining" characteristic of the whole cohort of people from age thirty to thirty-nine? Could you have painted with any broader a brush, Other Paul?
There are many ways in which society has coarsened, and we certainly are well-marinated in the "I got mine" mentality here in God-blessed America. But I don't see empathy as any more lacking in the thirtysomes (I'm 41, FWIW) than it is in my own age group or those much older or younger.
And I have to say, short of at the Naval Observatory, I don't see an "utter" lack of empathy at all.
I generally make allowances for hyperbole, but this one was a bit hard for me to swallow.