Does a blackmailer count the human cost? Or even care? Does he see, not just the target, the blackmailer’s bullseye, but the ripple effect of devastation, the casualties in family, friends, and associates? Perhaps he is blind. Or doesn’t care. Or sees and takes perverse pleasure in the pain?

People callous and oblivious to another’s pain frighten me. People who take pleasure in the pain of others leave me speechless in horror. It is less than human.

Kat Colorado (Karen Kijewski)