> They have my sympathy.

> I am horrible because I care about things that affect me directly while caring a lot less about thing that don't?

Your previous words speak for themselves:

> The thing is, I don't care. China can be as awful as it wants to be to it's own citizens.

> Again, I don't care. China sees places like Tibet and Taiwan as China. Not my problem.

You are abhorrent, no matter how hard you want to believe that you're a helpless piece of styrofoam floating in the rough ocean.

I'll give you a hint that your parents should have taught you when you were a child: you can care about other people and have compassion for them even if you're not able to help them.

The seeds that grow into great atrocities have throughout history always been planted by apathy.

> I am just some middle-aged software engineer living in some small town, somewhere.

My sympathies to your neighbors.