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"Without that ability to sympathize, we might think that it was perfectly all right* to keep slaves."
Nearly all people for thousands of years thought it was perfectly all right to keep slaves. Are you saying they didn't have the ability to sympathize? This is the sort of profoundly ahistorical "thinking" that irritates so many people. Someone who considers his own society's beliefs to be laws of reality when there is obvious historical evidence in the other direction that they never bothered to think about.
My take is that without the ability to sympathize we wouldn't have stopped. Not that we suddenly learned/developed sympathy.