>>19371You’re coping
Humans are animals, what makes us special is that we have behavioral plasticity and thus social plasticity, and these aspects influence each other, humans have a capacity for violence because all animals do, and we have a capacity for immense violence because our aggression and means of dealing out violence and destruction accumulate in ways it can’t with other animals
>>19378> morality is linked closely to affective empathy which again, the vast majority of people have, which is instinctual although upbringing has some effectThe problem with your thinking is that you see affective empathy as an ontological good, while affective empathy is a large part of why and how the Nazi death squads could laugh and cheer and be merry and drunk while slaughtering civilians, sticking infants on bayonet, and gang raping women in broad daylight
You wanna know the secret?
Even when they were running slave camps where they immediately execute women and elderly people because they couldn’t work and then worked people to death and murdered people essentially at random they still thought they were the good guys
So yea, the other anons point on morality is essentially correct and affective empathy, that thing where you feel what another feels without words, isn’t necessarily the best basis for a moral code, since while it can lead you to feel and try to prevent the suffering of another, it can also let you feel the same perverted pleasure a comrade feels after committing a brutal murder