I agree that there are people who don’t have empathy and they won’t learn it. Either they can’t or they just don’t want to. There are selfish, self-centered people. Maybe some people were raised to not have empathy and view it as being weak.

But I do think that we all learn empathy as young children. We are naturally selfish and learn to share or to feel for someone else when they are hurt. I remember my mother teaching it to me, and I taught it to my kids. They picked up on it pretty quickly. Maybe other people who lack the ability to have empathy don’t, or they don’t want to.