sorry, just needed to join the convo 🫣

there are two types of empathy: cognitive (taking the person's perspective) and emotional (sharing emotional experience with the person).

according the the first one, you are right: people should not kill people under any circumstances.

but due to the fact we all have different backgrounds, our emotional empathy towards some groups could be stronger.

i don't consider it manipulation, rather favouritism – and it's still up to debate if it's a good or bad thing