Empathy is not a weakness of the kind.

Empathy is not feeling sorry for someone, it is understanding them to determine the best course of action. The Art of War teaches to know your enemy as well as you know yourself. But to know yourself is determined by knowing the other, and how you are affected by the other as well as how you affect the other. The formula of ABC by Master. It is only through the patience of empathy, the C, that it all becomes clearer.