Emotional Angst Rendered Upon You

This excerpt tickles both philosophical questions and the contradiction between the instincts of humanity versus the brutality of prosecuting the acquisition of power. The warm affection seeking flesh of a child, a child in need of adult care contrasted with cold steel that will not interact at all with the child’s flesh and can easily be washed of all evidence of a waning child’s existence. A child needing immediate adult attention versus adults totally unconcerned, who are primarily focused on accomplishing a task, like a business transaction, like the pleading child in agony being just an object, a rock whistling in the wind. The sound is simply ignored because protective emotion is not part of the transaction to be conducted. If a child looks human, seems harmless, and is in dire need, does it not deserve the attention, the consideration that any human child deserves. Or does being partly alien render this child a thing, with no rights to receive protective and restorative love and affection. Another question comes from facts hinted: Is Docherty’s change of heart, despite being a brutal murderer, due to a shared commonality recognized, an instinct unique to that commonality, triggered? Is it required that we share a precise genetic heritage with the person in need to be able or willing to lend assistance? Is commonality a mere sharing of the same physicality or of being driven by ideals in common? Do you know an immutable truth with respect to this quandary?