You're assuming the collective has compassion to begin with. I'm not so sure; the collective is kind of a super organism in a lot of ways. Perhaps it's jumping the gun a bit to believe that just because we, as individual 'cells' or 'organs' have a consciousness and so therefore have compassion that the super organism that is our society must as well.

It's a bit of a paradox, don't you think? In order for the collective to have a compassion, it must have a brain, which can only be achieved by becoming a hive mind. And so your argument has somewhat of a conundrum.

Personally, I like to think about society or the collective more like ionic or covalent bonds. I guess 'tribes' would be more like benzene rings sugar strand molecules.

But then, I'm often told I by many an armchair expert that I have to be neurodivergent too. I certainly check more than a few boxes on a whole lot of those lists of weird. I'm cool with that.

You know, if you think about the whole collexctive conundrum in ecological or evolutionary terms, what were witnessing is just a natural breakdown of social bonds from one type to another type because the super organism has grown too large. It can no longer maintain itself ('homeostsasis') in its current iteration. Evolutionary pressures are acting against it. It will adapt, duverge into something else, or die.

There might be more danger in clinging to a model that evolution has selected against.