One of them is Peter Thiel, who has spoken about his evangelical leanings for more than a decade and who has lately shared his views on his faith with increasing frequency. “I believe in the resurrection of Christ,” he said in a 2020 talk. “The only good role model for us is Christ.” (In watching talk after talk of Thiel speaking about his faith, I found myself genuinely puzzled, not because Thiel lacks conviction but because his thoughts on the subject are so galaxy-brained that it seems like he’s playing a game of 3D chess that the rest of us are only catching up to: “When you don’t have a transcendent religious belief, you end up just looking around at other people. And that is the problem with our atheist liberal world. It is just the madness of crowds.”)

Is most often a way to spread propaganda, or believe whatever you want to. A great example of this is the "sin of empathy" talk that's been going around. There may be some sort of trolley problem sense that trying to help every ends up helping no one, but as soon as you try to like maximize that idea, the way long-termists talk about helping trillions of people in the future rather than millions of people now. You're just sort of intellectualizing your way into believing whatever you want to believe.

The basic explanation is probably the right explanation. Absent exigent circumstances, love your neighbor just means love your neighbor.