[azeirah]

I understood it how empathy doesn't "causes" us to bomb people, but how it is used to manipulate the masses into believing it's a good thing. The masses wouldn't allow it if they didn't believe it was a good thing, is what I think his argument is.

This is not a very strong argument anyway, because people can be manipulated in plenty other ways regardless. Empathy here is not the cause, but merely one of many tools to manipulate the masses.