Mmmhh, Friedrich Nietzsche undertook similar musings ... and it didn't go so well for him.
He thought of pity/empathy as profound human weaknesses, expressed in Christianity.
It's well put in this documentary overall, particularly from minutes 43-45.
Letting your actions spring from love and empathy for all beings is the power of the enlightened. The path towards it is a constant act of awareness (not intellectual philosophy).