A "callous and brutal" father who murdered his baby daughter by repeatedly biting, punching and shaking her has been jailed for life with a minimum of 22 years.
So, whether you might consider that to be callous… you don't focus your energies on people who are in constituencies where they don't make a huge difference.
Neither does the failure of African countries to crack down on the callous people smugglers who crisscross the continent with apparent impunity.
It is not just the lip-service they have shown to the consultation, but the callous disregard they are showing to long-standing and loyal columnists and journalists.
If deported, campaigners say Jordan's decision would be particularly callous as Sahlee has been offered a visa by the German government, who have asked for more time to complete the administrative procedures necessary to transfer him to Germany.
"The callous approach taken to forced redundancies by Fairfax in the group of papers headed by the Wagga Daily Advertiser is insensitive, unprofessional and short-sighted".
In the days of Afghan austerity, such celebrations are thought to be callous overspending at best, and un-Islamic debauchery at worst.
Despite the rhetoric about "a land of opportunity", punitive and callous policies like these will not alter the fact that more than five jobseekers are chasing every vacancy.
The blame lies with Bashar Assad and the callous intransigence of such outsiders as Vladimir Putin's Russia.
It's callous, cruel and, of course, wrong: the human body breaks down, and it breaks down in ways that are neither predictable nor fair.
But on humanitarian grounds standing back from the Syrian civil war in the face of more than 200,000 deaths and the continued use of chemical weapons (now in the form of everyday chlorine) seems callous.
