You are right. I have no obligation to concen myself with your connections and relationships outside your professional duty. It is empathy that demands that I ask. Because to reduce people to their utilitarian value leaves us as no more than machines, or worse, parts in a larger device.

[If someone allows themself to believe they can simply throw people away for a supposed greated cause, then--

Well, that is how Zack became Gormogon's apprentice. He was lied to, manipulated. And he believed the lie.]