I first started thinking in terms of an empathy test for policies a few years ago when our government was trying to dictate to Iran about nuclear weapons. Let me state clearly that I am not in favor of a nuclear Iran. But was threatening them the right way to go? I thought about how US citizen would have reacted if a foreign government had told us to stop the Manhattan project. I suspect that we would have reacted defiantly. Why were we surprised when Iran reacted that way?
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