I'm reading Ray Kurzweils' book The Singularity is Nearer.
He's stated that our brains have 6 levels of processing that, incrementally, build our ability to think abstractly.
Idea: Maybe not everyone has the last layer fully enabled. Maybe that's why some people can't comprehend certain topics nor have empathy.
They just never developed the wiring.
It's phyiological. Maybe not moral.
@jurban I think the problem is in software. If you run programs that preclude higher states of awareness, then you can't run those.
There's a certain point where people choose what software they're going to run on their brain's meat-ware.
When they run programs that say "harm others and hold them back and destroy healthy organisms" it becomes moral to the rest of us.
@AskTheDevil
The context is critical to the logic of the argument.
If their hardware is unable to run the software, can they really be held to a high moral standard?
IMHO, the only standard we can hold others to is: "Do they have the courage to face this challenge?"
To be clear, I don't have a position on this topic ... besides having the courage to face what you have the capacity to comprehend.