[CarlBeckel]

Studies like these seem to point so often to things like violent TV and computers, which sounds terribly anecdotal, but I guess bland enough that people will accept the study as verifying something they already know.

I would love it if maybe sometimes you would get a study like this that concludes, "Researchers suggest that the decline in empathy is caused by excessive exposure to charitable pleas for helping whatever poor children or country are in fashion at the moment, as well as those awful animal abuse commercials that make me cry."