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?