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You don't have to lose empathy to not be naive and to understand why people hurt others.
It's always dialectical, it's always driven by their material conditions. People raised "perfectly" might be even less likely to identify with poor people as poor people themselves are. And not seeing another human being in a person of the other class leads straight to apathy or worse.
Behind those "perfect" families of rich white people often hides a narcissistic abuse that's inherited for generations btw. Such abuse easily makes new abusers.
Mainstream value system that promotes freedom of individual to use their influence against other people also contributes to normalize abusive behavior.
Well said. From what I've heard, a lot of individual members of the Bourgeoisie are in fact extremely damaged human beings. I don't think it's implausible that cycles of abuse do play a role in that.