text: I've noticed that people with low empathy (and many conservatives frankly) can only process the world through specific examples of their own lives. So for instance all gay people are bad, until they have a relative who is gay breaking that ideology. It has to be a direct thing for them, which is maybe why Meghan always has to see things from her isolated view. That's why the "other" is always such an effective scare tactic for them. The only relevant things are what they can personally connect to.