Someone posed this question in the context of police / prison abolition.

If the system is going to fuck you over and probably kill you anyway, why should you feel bad about, e.g., cops being killed? They don't care about you.

Billionaires and their cronies have built an entire society around extracting wealth in exchange for making bigoted authoritarians more powerful, to the point the world is literally on fire.

Why should we care if one of them dies? They don't see themselves as one of us.

Anti-trans bigots have this weird tic of wanting to be loved and admired despite saying and doing horrendous things. Why should any trans person care if JKR or Elon Musk dies horribly?

"Be the better person" is usually the response, but the expectation of one-way sympathy, deference, and even submission is part of the system of oppression they use.

Why should we?

@gwynnion Personally, I don't care if JKR, Musk, the cops, my GOP family of birth, and the entire populace of white conservative america are sucked into a singularity and forgotten by the universe.

Any and all of them could perish and I'd smile.

@timberwraith Like, you don't want to hold hatred in your heart but I don't hate JKR, et al. or even think about them most of the time.

Not the way they spend all their time trying to hurt people like us.

But I'm not shedding any tears for them either. And yeah, I'd probably celebrate a little when they died. Just as they'd celebrate my death if they knew who I was.

But I just can't be compelled to care about them.

They don't matter.

The best thing they can do for me is cease to exist.