Subjective Morals and Societal Whims

[Neo-Scholastic]

Is empathy quantifiable different than other evolved human feelings and instincts like jealousy, xenophobia, and contempt? Surely there is more to the story.

Quantifiably different, of course not.   How would that even work?  Quantifying qualia appears to be a category error, IMO.

I'm sorry the spell-checker took over giving my question an entirely different meaning. I meant to ask if their was a quality that distinguished empathy from other feelings and instincts such that giving it priority over the others is warranted.