Is Sila a Morally More Callous Character?

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I think si is a morally more callous than most any other character, except for the ones you're probably thinking of. There's a kind of like, if your, and thisis tony has this to some extent, likes he's emotionally vulnerable. If you have that kind of vulnerability, it almost makes you less evil, sensright? Sila, cause it puts you more in the realm of the human the moment, the moment we start seeing ourselves. I recently, i had id heard of it before, but i recently came across, like, a blog post about and i hadn't realized how about it was. Gad the rape of nan king description orecases. And

David and Tamler descend into the dark pits of Hell to look Satan in the eyes and discover the nature of evil. OK…that’s not fully accurate, we just read and talk about a couple of philosophy articles that analyze the concept. What are the features of evil people and acts? Does evil just mean ‘really really really really bad’ or is it categorically different in some way? Can you be evil without ever actually causing harm? Is Tony Soprano evil?

Plus we take a "moral alignment" quiz (inspired by role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons). We both want to end up as ‘chaotic good’ but does it turn out that way? And what kind of character is a unicorn?