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Abstraction. These people are in such a different class compared to the average person that they basically don't associate with them, so they never see the consequence of their downright evil actions... up until a scorned man with nothing to lose makes them very clear very quickly.
Assassination is a Leaky Abstraction
Do you cry everytime you step on a bug?
Personally? I don't even kill bugs I find inside. They are taken outside. When my cat destroys the occasional lizard, I have to euthanize them rather than let them die slowly in pain or throwing them outside to die out of sight. I cry then usually.
I think a lot of CEOs aren't capable of empathy, or have been so detached to human cost by the many layers of numbers and intermediaries between
Probably would if it shot me