Very few (if any) humans ever really treat all human life as equal emotionally, because that would be either debilitating or sociopathic depending on extreme.

Very few (if any) humans ever really treat all human life as equal emotionally, because that would be either debilitating or sociopathic depending on extreme. We are emotional beings, so it's incredibly hard to exclude emotion from our decisions. Perfectly rational action is in many ways more dangerous from a moral/ethical standpoint. As a society we are currently pretending it is a terrible crime to differentiate, but it strikes me as so at odds with reality as to be a source of unsolvable friction