I am really aiming for density here. I don’t think it’s weird (or debatable) that humans don’t care as much about other humans that are far away. They care about ones that are closer.
The thing is lack of density was sufficient to trigger this lack of care. Kind of interesting.
A million dead people, sufficiently far from us in any particular dimension, don’t matter. It’s a funny piece of human psychology. Deaths years ago or years in the future, or in Africa or wherever. Just don’t matter to most people. Goes double when they are “other”.
The thing is lack of density was sufficient to trigger this lack of care. Kind of interesting.