Does Being Cognitively Predetermined/Disposed Toward Empathy Make One More Apt To Have Sweeter/more Frequent Empathogenic Highs?

The Brain Functional Networks Associated to Human and Animal Suffering Differ among Omnivores, Vegetarians and Vegans

Is this just a sensitivity exclusively towards suffering,and can we in every conscious decision(daily meals being one of the most frequent opportunities to do so)use plasticity (in the reverse) to cultivate and strengthen more of these "involuntary"- a correct term perhaps only in the perspective of the immediate situation, although arguably not involuntary in the long term- neural networks of empathy?

Hermetic Cult of Synchronicity: Meeting Minutes

"We learn a new word for the first time. Then we meet it again in a few hours. Why? Because words are living organisms impelled to a crystallizing process, to mysterious agglutinative matings at which the word-fancier is sometimes privileged to assist. The glow-worms light up....The individual is also a moving mirror or screen which reflects in its motion an ever changing panorama of thoughts, sensations, faces and places and yet the screen is always being guided to reflect one film rather than another, always seeking a chosen querencia. In the warm sea of experience we blob around like plankton, we love-absorb or hate-avoid each other, or are avoided, or are absorbed, devoured and devouring. Yet we are no more free than the cells in a plant or the microbes in a drop of water, but are held firmly in tension by the pull of the future and the stress of the past."
-palinurus at it again