Makes me think of how the US army trains their waterboarders: by waterboarding them first.
The goal is to manufacture a lack of empathy along the lines of: "why should I treat this person better than I was treated".
The goal is to manufacture a lack of empathy along the lines of: "why should I treat this person better than I was treated".
But then, we're talking about humans, especially the violence-enjoying strata of humans here.