Most people are too unengaged to learn history and accept that its lessons apply to their own future. Few people have the idea that their children are an extension of their own life, they think all that's at stake is their own retirement (ie. welcoming in cannibals to threaten their offsprings future). How many people now have had to take even an animal life to eat meat? My empathy won't accept torture, but it seems zeroed out aside from that where my enemies are concerned. I don't have too much hope for the majority though.