 People in leadership, propagandists, can sometimes weaponize parochial empathy. They can sometimes inundate people on their side and say, look, look at the victims on our side. Look at the horrors that we have suffered. And they could be absolutely right, but they can then say the only way to deal with those horrors is through intense retaliation and vengeance. Parochial empathy can itself be a tactic of escalation. It's useful for people who want conflict, which is one of the things