[chotadipo]

>I contend that the root of all evil is plain and simply a
>failure in empathy. The second one fails to empathize with
>another human beings plight, is the second immorality becomes
>not just possible, but inevitable
>
Death, I think you meant altruism, since Empathy assumes the victim is disadvantaged. Do you expect me to Empathise with a rich robber? But I can show altruism towards him because as a human being, I feel he is one of us and deserves better.

This brings me to my point that it is Ethics that dictate how someone will handle a situation. While you may see a situation that looks like it was accted upon through a 'don't care' perspective, it could just be that he had his own set of Ethics that he was basing his actions on.