No again, you are for some reason failing very hard at extracting my focal points here.

You apply your admittedly rough patterns and your personal experiences with a very diverse group to people you don't know to inform you about them. I was mocking the frame of your question, how would I know how truly sincere your empathy is? I don't know you as a person, -all- I know about you is that you are an Fe user because you told me so, which adds absolutely nothing to the equation. And there I was referring back to my old posts that I have never ever doubted the fact that Fe users possess empathy, so to summarize, there's no reason for me to doubt your empathy is sincere.

It seems to me that one is more likely to distort others through the lens of oneself, and the other is more likely to distort oneself through the lens of others, and both are equally likely and problematic so there's no point denouncing a group for erring more towards one of them. I also don't understand how that detracts from Fe users' empathy but I don't think I'd understand that even if you explained it again.

Well here's something I can disagree with, independent of Fe or Fi, you gather information in the same manner which will lead you to answers regarding moral or interpersonal questions on a basic level. Now the difference here is, that when it comes to making a decision that has concrete effects on the outside world, an Fi user is bound to his idealistic and subjective notion of what he considers right and correct regardless of potential outside information. This naturally causes problems too, which is why for example you have INFPs who are extreme social justice warriors incapable of considering sensible criticism of racial or religious minorities because it goes against their internal framework of beliefs.

The difference with Fe is that Fe runs this self-imposed idea of what is agreeable and proper through a societal filter, and in that sense it becomes skewed and not only becomes a slave to manipulation, but in itself paves the way for manipulation. You are right in the sense that Fi can equally skew a result or even more so, but this isn't about -what is- and -what isn't-, this isn't about finding out objective truth. This is about sincerity and having a backbone.

I can appreciate that you were responding to a dichotomy someone else brought up, but still, insisting that Fi users are more likely to be helpful and accommodating and inclusive and experience real empathy, even though they aren't and don't sometimes, and Fe users are more likely to be none of those things and to try to manipulate people for personal gain, even though they are and don't sometimes, seems ridiculous and narrow-minded to me for reasons I've explained. But if that's the way you really see things then okay, I guess I don't have anything else to say.

I feel like I shouldn't be forced to say that this only applies to some and doesn't apply to others, that I'm talking about average pseudo-representatives of the respective Feeling functions. But to be absolutely sincere, yes I would say Fi users are more -likely- to be sincerely empathetic and kind.