  We are getting closer to the answer. Unlike the sporadic
newspaper stories that surfaced of that genocide during World
War I, we can now witness nightly the level of atrocity men are
willing to perpetrate on their fellow men. We can now dig faster
and deeper into the psychic of these perpetrators.  Today, we
see how a despotic ruler can systematically kill his political
opposition in Syria, and while thousands of civilians are
murdered, Bashar Assad's wife is concerned about downloading
purchases from iTunes. There is a disconnection of empathy. It
is as if the capacity for ethical consideration requires that
our limbic systems be properly in tune. Without empathy, we
can't seem to conjure morality. Emotions trump reason.   We now
know, through the efforts of neuroscientists, that our brain
structures vary in their capacity of empathy. But we nonetheless
pride ourselves on our ability to reason. Without rational
thought, science and engineering would not have contributed so
much to the great improvement in