Quote Originally Posted by lemontrees View Post
Not that I think Fi-PoLRs are necessarily unempathetic. They seem to lack context for what's driving the other person (i.e. not have an anchor w which to feel empathy).
Yes! Socionics is a theory of information processing, and PoLR-related information is grainier and lower quality than information from strong functions.

I don't want to press the point too far because I still need to think about it, but the strength of someone's desire to sympathize or empathize isn't type-related. In my experience, there is no shortage of ethicals who range from apathetic to sadistic in their disregard for other people's feelings.

People can also compensate for their PoLRs by using their strong functions. If you can't feel what other people are going through, you can at least describe what they're going through using a logical function, then act on that information.