The natural empathy gradient from "exactly like me" to "entirely unlike me" has to be artificially reshaped at least a little before you can qualify as basic modern human.
Just as natural sensorimotor responses have to be reshaped at least a little before you can drive.
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Out-of-the-box ungoverned empathy, is a decidedly mixed blessing that's likely more harmful than helpful under conditions of modernity. It's astounding how many people treat it as a capacity born fully formed and coo over signs of empathetic behavior by puppies and babies.
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You say this, yet you treat “the right” as monolithic! There are plenty of a-holes on the right, but also plenty who are motivated by exactly this thinking - what comes AFTER the empathy?

