Engage Your Reason, Worded Well

Via Big Lizards, the following quote pretty much sums it up:

If you're a human being, you feel sorry for people who have suffered great tragedy. But if you're a reasoning human being, you don't allow empathy to leap up your throat and strangle your brain: you control it; you take a step back and ask whether We are the evidence ever means anything more than "Shut up," she explained.

Go read the whole thing.