I personally feel sorry for anybody with high levels of empathy, especially empaths because empathy for others holds one back from their ultimate potential.

Because I have no empathy for the overwhelmingly majority of humanity, I am capable of doing the things for the world that nobody else could stomach. I am capable of greatness that would otherwise be out of reach for me because I can do morally questionable things to achieve a goal and make the tough choices such as saving the lives of 100 people by sacrificing one and so forth.

So while the empaths are "feeling bad" for say the starving African children and sending them food that gets stolen or wasted, people like myself are making the more rational plans to eliminate the source of the problem all together even if such a plan takes significantly longer to achieve and more children die in the process, it helps more children in the long run and saves more resources.