Not everyone deserves empathy.
that's kind of the whole point
when people don't deserve something but you give it to them anyway
like people who don't "deserve" government handouts because they didn't work for it, like so many on the right like to say, but you give it to them anyway because it's the decent thing to do
it's so easy to give empathy to people who "deserve" it as to be practically worthless
give empathy to someone who might be surprised to receive it and you both gain from it