But if human sociopaths lack sympathy that doesn’t prevent US from having sympathy for THEM at all. Likewise, it’s not at all obvious that we CAN have sympathy for aliens with completely different cognitive architecture even if they have sympathy for one another. An octopus is intelligent, but if I worry about it’s pain I think that I am probably purely anthropomorphizing.
But if human sociopaths lack sympathy that doesn’t prevent US from having sympathy for THEM at all. Likewise, it’s not at all obvious that we CAN have sympathy for aliens with completely different cognitive architecture even if they have sympathy for one another. An octopus is intelligent, but if I worry about it’s pain I think that I am probably purely anthropomorphizing.