 And yet when we feel as though we are in a zero-sum setting, where the other side and ours are locked in struggle, well then it can feel emotionally unaffordable to care for the other side. You know, I think in times of conflict we crave a black and white moral landscape. We want to know that we are on the right side of history. And we want to believe that anybody who we're against is just as wrong as we are right.