You say empathy overdrive, I say empathy baseline. Refusing to see others who suffer as human because you think it doesn't affect your bubble (and the latter part is usually false) doesn't meet the minimum.

I'm not saying we should intervene in 100% of people who suffer, because we will not succeed at such an impossible task. But solving HIV and other critical diseases in less developed parts of the world is a relatively small investment with a high success rate, per TFA. Yet some will say "I don't care because it won't affect me". Seems pretty weak to me. Does not strike me as wisdom or emotional maturity to be honest.