Humanity

Tell me, is it harder to express humanity towards strangers or towards friends?

Hang on, with friend it’s empathy and with strangers it’s humanity.

There’s a clue there I think; humanity in the broader sense may be the sum of all empathy.

Or at the individual level it could be empathy, projected onto strangers.

My guess is that those who are naturally empathetic are more likely to naturally express humanity, compared to those that express a forced form of humanity but that are less likely to be genuinely empathetic to friends.

A guess; humanity can’t exist without humility. And humanity is a cousin of empathy which must also need some form of humility.