Smart people + empathy

[oldbadger]

Welcome to the club.
Just the other day, a poster scorned me for
being empathy challenged.
Liberals....their tolerance fails at times, eh.

I get so confused.
I think that you are a Libertarian , and then there are US Liberals, and we have Lib Dems somewhere central. Tolerance fails in humans, most humans, I think.
But your Liberal member needs to decide whether republicans are empathetic Towards Democrats and vice versa, etc
I suspect that when a person chucks the 'you don't care' mud that they themselves must surely get spattered with it too.

Question....
Would the correlation between empathy's lack
& high intelligence be utterly defeated by my
example?

Yes, I think so, because a slow wit can be as careless as a genius.