Neil Heslin, the heckled parent at the Capitol hearing on gun control...

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16. Sometimes I think part of humanity is in the process of mutation.

One branch still has the ability to feel the pain of others and respect the sacredness of life. The other is a mutation that can only see their own little sociopathic world that they manufacture in their minds if reality does not meet their desires. There are those who are able to see from another person's point of view, to walk in their shoes, you might say, then there are those who have absolutely no innate ability to see outside of themselves; to see themselves in another person is impossible, futile, oblivion.

It really seems as if humanity is splitting in two; we're like different breeds who think with two entirely different chemistries. Yes, there have always been people on both sides of this rift, but the rift is getting larger and the sociopathic branch is becoming less of an oddity and more pronounced and defined.

How else can you explain the mass lack of reason and empathy such as we see in this ugliness as well as in the rest of the world?