Kirk looked at Jim in silence, then said quietly, "Some of the ways we're different, I guess. I learned a long time ago that people aren't all capable of decency and would rather protect themselves and those they're closest too and hell with everyone else in the world. How..." His fingers tightened, and he whispered, "How can you say everyone has compassion, when you lived through that?" Tarsus. "...Vulcan exploding... Earth almost doing the same... seven ships. Someone else that's lost any compassion they might have had."