Quote - Umatov is a thief. Why waste ANY sympathy on him.

I don't consider sympathy/empathy towards any living thing to be a waste. I guess that's where I differ from many of you. It's a good thing you aren't in the medical field. I'm a nurse and prisoners get sick and need to be hospitalized from time to time. I've looked after some of the worse case offenders you can imagine, in addition I've worked in pychiatric nursing on locked wards looking after people who have been deemed too mentally insane to stand trial for their heinous crimes. I treat them just like anyone else, and not because it's part of my job, but because I really care about people and all living things in general. Some may find that hard to believe or to even understand, but that's how I am and how I was raised. I'm not ashamed of that. :)

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi