Time and again my experience and that of many others has been that many people are indifferent to the problems of others as long as they remain the problems of OTHERS. Once it affects someone they know or, worse, themselves, they have a supposed sudden humanist epiphany that is really just enlightened self interest. That is shameful enough for anyone, but since Christ was the first to state the Golden Rule actively rather than passively it is particularly inexcusable in Christians. The revealing part of it is usually that they remain as indifferent as ever to problems they believe (rightly or not) still do not affect them.