"And this is the sickness at the heart of it all: people spend their short lives insisting that society should be or must be cruel, uncaring, a jungle where no one cares whether you live or die. Yet they build this world, or turn a blind eye to it, as if they will always be the hunter, never the prey. They never imagine that someday, the jungle will come for them when they least expect it, that they will be prey, in the very manufactured jungle which they fought so desperately for us to live in.

They advocate for a society where protections are stripped away, assuming that they will never be vulnerable. They think they are always safe. They think they will always be peachy. The irony is that such a cruel, brutish society eventually threatens everyone, including those who defend its creation. You cannot rationally build a system that assumes you’ll always land on the winning side. The political philosopher John Rawls wrote of the veil of ignorance: if you did not know where you’d land in society, rich or poor, safe or unsafe, you would never sensibly choose a world where empathy is optional. They fail this test spectacularly".