Cruel

"Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth, half coming out, half effaced within the dim light, in all the attitudes of pain, abandonment, and despair. Another mine on the cliff went off, followed by a slight shudder of the soil under my feet. The work was going on. The work! And this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die.

   "They were dying slowly -- it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now -- nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom....The man seemed young -- almost a boy. 
Cruelty at its peak, if there's such a saying. In Heart of Darkness, slaves were brutally taken advantage of for their labor and left to die. To the oppressor the slaves were easily replaced, just transactions. What makes an individual to have no source of remorse, empathy, or sympathy? Is it the hunger of and for power? Some believe that humanity is only bad at the core, but there is still always some small amount of good even in the worst of people. Growing up in different places, observing individuals who all come from different and diverse walks of life proves there is still good in the bad, no matter how bad. Sometimes the bad may outnumbers the good, but the good always outweighs the bad it just takes a watchful eye to notice and acknowledge the reason for one's motives.