However, both the link between empathy and compassion and the link between compassion and ethics turn out to be problematic.Broad empathy & Narrow empathy discussed.Heather Battaly’s definition of empathyEmpathy is a process of caring, or sharing, or knowing, or some combination thereof...However, it is not obvious that these of related. We can use our knowledge of what is going on in the head of another for good or evil.