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There's a case to be made, though perhaps not a very strong one, that societal development creates a favorable environment for progressive values.
As geopolitical norms (lol) mature and interstate conflict becomes less common and literacy improves and life expectancy rises while birth rate falls, people around the world have an inclination to see other people around the world as their fellows, and have some level of sadness or outrage when humans are slaughtered in acts of aggression.
I've thought this since I was a lib, but I don't think it's very airtight, maybe more coincidental like the "better angels of our nature" that known Epstein affiliate Steven Pinker extols over the past half century. But I'd like to think that in general, people care about the whole of humanity when their needs are met and they are not aggressively propagandized to or threatened.