Serafim, I observe the same callous, casual cruelty, mean-spiritedness and lack of empathy in the various Chinese apologists who have been around in the comment board for a few years, not all of them are under paid employment and some of them are residing here.  I think the seven decades of CPC brutal rules, the non-stopped cycles of violent and vicious political campaigns have stripped the people of their humanity of empathy, kindness, dignity and free will.  When people all around you starved to death (during the Great Leap Forward); beaten, humiliated and killed (during Cultural Revolution), you did all you could to survive (or even got ahead), humanity is a luxury.  All these happened at a national scale over many years, it takes a toll.  With the same party still in charge and grip tighten with lots of Chinese cheering on,  I am pessimistic that the cultural descendants of Confucius will ever recover.