I wonder how much correlation there is between empathy and intelligence.
Imagine the people with the most empathy winning a brutal war against everyone else?
I kinda want to make a comic book about it, where we get perfect lab-grown meat that's subatomically identical to the most well-cultivated-and-butchered animal meat, but like 95% of people keep killing animals because they're attached to it
The remaining 5% aren't OK with letting this happen to the animals, but the 95% think the 5% are too outnumbered to do anything, so the 5% have to methodically wipe out most of the 95%
The lab-meaters get addicted to the taste of human meat in the process of defeating the animal-meaters, so they don't stop at victory, they continue in an all out genocide, eating whole bloodlines of people whose families supported the animal meat side in the past
Eventually it's a civil war between the lab-meaters, some of them saying it's time to stop eating people, others saying it's destiny for the animal-meater bloodlines to be factory farmed and sold in grocery stores
The problem is my whole concept kinda trails off there, idk how you'd write a good ending. Seems like this is a great concept building up, but then it runs out of anywhere to go