They're children. Or possibly animals, like show ponies or show poodles. Theirs is not to ask why, or to have a free thought in their head. If they were being

They're children. Or possibly animals, like show ponies or show poodles. Theirs is not to ask why, or to have a free thought in their head. If they were being raised to be slaughtered, you might have an easier time finding empathy, even when this raising is not doing great at giving them human qualities. Well, they ARE being raised to be slaughtered, in a slightly more abstract sense. I think empathy is completely reasonable. The thing is you have to have empathy for what they MIGHT have been if they weren't yanked out of normal life, kept from growing up or seeing any reality, and trained to be incredibly vacant and damaged. You're seeing human beings getting ruined. Maybe they could have been a lot better if they didn't get sucked into this madness.