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?