In reality, Champ Ferguson was nothing more than a mass murderer who displayed an unbridled willingness to take human life, without remorse and for his own personal reasons.
Several studies have shown, for example, that it is easy to "infra-humanize" members of other races or groups: we perceive their basic emotions, such as fear and anger, but we don't acknowledge their experience of uniquely human emotions, such as remorse, embarrassment, or indignation.
"We will never be able to comprehend the senseless nature of their deaths, the total disregard shown for human life and that no remorse has ever been shown".
Many of his songs contemplated the darkest, most violent human impulses with realism and remorse, and in them the struggle against sin was never an easy one.
He shows no sign of remorse for the human suffering inflicted by the SS and SD, and seems sorry only that Germany has lost the war and that "everything was always done half-heartedly" (p.4).
David Foster Wallace deserves to be remembered as a great writer not because he was capable of doing PhD-level philosophical speculation as well as shunting fictional characters (slowly) through a well-described room, but because he mastered a certain area of human sensation: intricate self-conscious remorse at the fact of self-consciousness.
In psychological terms conscience is often described as leading to feelings of remorse when a human commits actions that go against his/her moral values and to feelings of rectitude or integrity when actions conform to such norms.
Vampires feel no remorse when killing humans or each other, the shrink learns from Pam, who describes herself as "especially unremorseful".
If machines don't feel remorse, then the very human moral instinct is eliminated.
Themes of regret and remorse, of time passing and humans ageing have started to creep into his work.
"We must express our deep remorse at the violation of the human rights of these women by Japanese soldiers in the past, and make our apology to the women," Mr. Hashimoto said, speaking to journalists at the Foreign Correspondents Clubb of Japan.
