Emotions are learned through experience and example.
Example: Take identical twins (identical DNA with slightly different phenotypes due to epigenetic influence ), as soon as they are born and put one in a cage, situated in the middle of a puppy mill with a nursing bottle only and treat this child the same as all the other dogs in there for capitalistic breeding purposes. Maintain identical living situation with no socialization at all, no exercise, never getting to leave the cage, minimal food, dirty water, filth, excrement etc, etc, etc. Include a mean kennel worker that torments daily with a squirt gun that causes severe aggression, or maybe a mean kennel worker that torments with a squirt gun then abuses with physical violence that causes severe fearfulness.
Put the other identical twin in a loving, well structured home with lots of dogs, cats, ginny pigs, birds and other children for playmates. Expose this child to all the wonderful experiences of birthing with all the many loving pets and all the natural nurturing care a well balanced mother will give to her off spring and see if empathy isn't picked up, absorbed, and internalized as a learned behavior (mimicking plus observational self-experience).
Then, after ten years of these consistent living conditions give CAT scans to both children and I suspect there will be a big difference in their neurological maps with many, many more large dead spots on the two legged creature that barks.
There are exceptions to everything along with unforeseen variables that make good fodder for argument and this might seem an extreme hypothesis, but Hitler and many like-minded psychopaths/sociopaths throughout human history did similar things to millions of folks. Just saying, as a realist.
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