Well..having empathy for only one side wouldn`t be objective.

I dont think of empathy as any personal creation of feeling from reading others emotions or whatever, just understanding of other`s feelings.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Darkness squeezes, Satan`s platypus rises tonight! Bork, bork, bork!