[BykrBayb]

Some people just never make that connection to the rest of humanity. I think it has to be made in early childhood, or not at all. If the connection is never made, the moral code that normal people live by doesn’t make any sense to them. They try to make sense of it using the only thing they know, utilitarianism. Because to them, people and animals are mere objects to be utilized. It’s sad.

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Some people just never make that connection to the rest of humanity.

Some people can have a connection to humanity and to reality at the same time. Some people just curl up in a ball and avoid reality when it comes knocking.

And the shooting down of the aircraft example is from a drill mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report on what to do if a plane was hijacked and the hijackers were threatening to fly it into a building. The question was left unresolved.