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> that we can't make them truly understand why something is wrong

There is nothing to understand. Our ancestors, over billions of years, experienced quite a few things. The most important parts transferred from generation to generation by various means. Some parts even got hard coded into our brains firmware. Empathy for example is a fantastic idea. We know that if everyone would live up to those expectations we could create a truly wonderful society. It's not something we've learned or even understand. We just trust our feelings.

It's in err to expect others wired differently to mimic our emotions. The psychopaths developed over billions of years too! When our civilization of abundance fails, like so many before, they will step over the corpses and enjoy robbing some prepper while we won't even be able to string a thought together.

Until that time they will be this weird out of place artifact trying to fit in in a world stacked against them. It's much easier to just learn their logic and apply it only to them. Give them places to fit in. Fewer carrots, more stick.

We keep putting them in charge of the nursery, cry wolf when they ate all the babies and then we kill them. Who's fault is it really?



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