I think it’s the tone and the context that does it for me. It seems less “worthwhile tradeoffs where part of the cost is someone’s death exist” and more “I don’t care if people die as long as I get enough out of it”.
Well, making psychiatric diagnoses on the basis of short internet comments is a popular and time-honored activity :-)
You’re right, “sociopathic” was perhaps a poor choice of words. “Cheerfully unempathic” would have been a better way of saying what I was thinking.
I think it’s the tone and the context that does it for me. It seems less “worthwhile tradeoffs where part of the cost is someone’s death exist” and more “I don’t care if people die as long as I get enough out of it”.
Well, making psychiatric diagnoses on the basis of short internet comments is a popular and time-honored activity :-)
You’re right, “sociopathic” was perhaps a poor choice of words. “Cheerfully unempathic” would have been a better way of saying what I was thinking.