I bet most concentration camp guards had empathy for their fellow workers. Did Josef twist his back dragging dead children into mass graves? Poor Josef! Did someone maintaining the crematoria lose a child to disease? That poor man...Dragon Ball Fan wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 3:13 amI still don't see it. how can someone like me who has empathy, put myself in the shoes of someone who does not?
To the people in the extermination machine, the people in the camps were "Them," not "Us." I'm not preaching vegetarianism or trying to derail the thread, but do you eat meat? Sure, that's different. But that's the point. Nowadays I think most people are taught that all humans are "Us." But that's not what the Nazis believed. And there's no criteria to objectively decide whom to have empathy for.
Maybe someone 500 years from now will look at what we do to cows and chickens and decide we didn't have empathy. Or they might wonder why right-handers could treat left-handers as people instead of eating them, who knows?