most people have that thing inside of them that is capable of reprehensibly destructive behavior. a facade of civility inhibits and masks it to varying degrees. the mistake that people practicing empathy make is to only empathize with the admirable or lamentable traits of an assumed victim, and not with that thing they know that comprises some more or less of their and others belonging to their own culture or kind. it is a mistake to believe that that called empathy is actually empathy. who can say that it isn't, at least in many cases, the projection of personal emotion onto a foreign and unfamiliar object that, infrequently exposed, can support such delusion with minimal conflict? if the average human is moderately emotionally talented, sensitive, or practiced, is their appeal to the practice of empathy only an appeal to the satisfaction of their attachments to an abstraction of reality that they shackle material reality to through cultural tyranny?