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Rationale is just as often, if not more so, as emotions to commit atrocities. It takes a great deal of rationale and emotional disregard to dehumanize people, and the "high horse of rationality" and "predicting models" is often required to cause things like the holocaust or to rationalize the genocide in Gaza ("Killing children is wrong, BUT....") No emotion required, in fact, rationalizing against emotion is the requirement.
The "rationale" behind such atrocities is always based on emotion, not actual reason. Usually fear. Analyzing why you feel that fear, and whether it is justified, will help to avoid falling into such logical fallacies.
Ignoring the fear, and dismissing it as illogical will not help anyone. You have to acknowledge the emotion, and analyse it. Allow it to exist, but avoid acting on it before analyzing it.
In fact, acting on emotions, especially on fear, will often result in such atrocities. Since it is fear, not reason, that eliminates compassion.
Ps. I like the discourse. Please don't see my comments as a personal attack. Even if neither of us changes their oppinion, understanding the other is valuable.
I have two mantras that come to mind when this conversation comes up.
"Let your front door and back door open to your thoughts and feelings, just don't serve them tea."
"What a liberation it is to realize that my thoughts and feelings aren't who I am. Who am I then? The one that realizes it."