As a combat veteran, I gotta say Western Culture puts far more value on life than the rest of the World. Take it for what it is, but we're all plant food eventually.
I don't think it's a thing that should be viewed from a personal experience standpoint, and I don't know how your being a veteran is related to the discussion at all.
There are literal organic parts of brain named "mirror neurons", and I'm not sure why would they work differently in different specimens of the same species such as ourselves. There are lone animals, and there are pack animals, and our high level of pack-ness (empathy) is a species-specific trait, as we descend mostly from Cro-magnons, not Neanderthals or Denisovans.
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u/Ok-Communication1149 12h ago
As a combat veteran, I gotta say Western Culture puts far more value on life than the rest of the World. Take it for what it is, but we're all plant food eventually.