I want to say that part of empathy is a selfish, self preservation mechanism. If that person over there is gleefully torturing a puppy… will they do it to me n

I want to say that part of empathy is a selfish, self preservation mechanism. If that person over there is gleefully torturing a puppy… will they do it to me next? If that person over there is gleefully torturing an LLM… will they do it to me next?