If we didn't feel any empathy toward other people, would we still see value in the Non-Aggression Principle? Or would we just see other people as objects, as means or obstacles to our own ends, and not deem them worthy of any legal consideration except insofar as it benefitted ourselves? If it's empathy that allows us to see what we have in common with them and leads us toward having enough respect for their rights and freedoms to uphold those rights and freedoms even when what they do has no personal value to us, what would happen if our empathy were socially discouraged in a myriad of ways to which we paid little attention? Would we not be a much less libertarian society?
With that thought in mind, I forward the following message for your consideration, and hope you may consider attending, especially if you ever eat animals.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
-Socrates