I think you learned something really profound (you could use it to understand others or why people even accept acting without conscience sometimes), thank you for sharing, too.

Tangentially related - I had the experience - from being in a depression - of empathizing more with people down on their luck, people who are chronically grumpy or unlikable etc, or maybe those that are afraid of unknown people. I'm not sure how to explain it, but it made me see different sides of the human experience and I got out alive.