There is a pattern among authoritarians and sociopaths of holding nice words hostage.

For example: Empathy.

I've noticed a rise in the use of the word "Empathy" in corporate discourse. Urging people to value empathy or consciously incorporate empathy into their practices.

This abstract goal is then to be implemented via harmful, corrupt, or ineffective policy proposals.
This tying of the goal of empathy to the bad proposal makes the bad proposal unassailable in a politically correct environment.
You can't be against empathy, can you??

The concept of empathy was taken hostage to push the proposal through.
Opponents of the proposal are villainized as un-empathetic sociopaths,
while the real sociopath is the proposal-maker who took empathy hostage.

Political Correctness is Orwellian.

Other examples: PATRIOT Act, recent re-definitions of Human Rights, Wellness