This is how I would define genuine morality, in the best of all possible worlds, if I believed it truly existed. This second alternative, however, as promising as it might first sound, is unfortunately, I think, a circular one. The answer, I think, is unequivocally no. You act morally towards other people only because it makes YOU feel better about yourself as a person. I hold that it has nothing to do with feeling genuine empathy or remorse for another person, somehow wishing you could be in their shoes, having both the desire and the ability to feel and genuinely understand another person's predicament and their own unique, private, personal pain.
People have the tendency to want to put a band-aid over a gaping wound.
He does none of these things, and if he did, it would not matter anyway. Instead he writes hilarious books on what he thinks it means to be moral. Singer is no martyr, which only demonstrates my point even further.