Creative suggestions indeed. I do think liberals often need to feel the same pain that they inflict on others to actually be able to put themselves in their shoes. For most of us with a conservative/Christian/Jewish upbringing thinking about how our decisions affect others is almost as natural as breathing for others without such upbringings it can an absolute alien concept - unless of course it wins votes!
Many of us would just wish that all of “our” guberments would just leave us alone....