As in H.G. Wells 1895 The Time Machine we have subterranean foes. A new type of foe that looks like us, they even act like us, though they aren't quite up to eating us yet, they are the ones with little conscience and they have their eye on us.
Having a conscience is not a concept, it is real, and not just reserved for descriptions like conscientious workers or for the conscientious objector. Having a conscience is what makes us human and makes civilization possible and is the most important thing to have evolved on planet earth.
Cradled inside the human brain are the mechanisms for a conscience whose basis stem from emotional connections to the outside world, connections to people, events or places allow the conscience to grow and evolve. Emotions add the "color" and emphasis to our experiences with the outside world, reinforcing our relationship to loved ones, making them "important". When we don't feel like doing something for a loved one, it's our "conscience" that takes over and "makes" us do what needs to be done. The conscience is the white line on the highway, governing our behavior in almost every aspect of life. We do things out of love, out of kindness or sympathy or even fear and thru our conscience and by our actions we are saying "I care".
Unfortunately we're not all created equal, either thru a genetic quirk or other mishap, the brain did not develop correctly leaving some with little emotion little conscience and no room to develop one. Others are completely without conscience (sociopaths, psychopaths), lacking any morality they mimic humans and walk among us as wolves. Others conscience have been hijacked (Invasion of The Body Snatchers) by an organized group under the guise of something good.
"We" must learn to identify these people. The hallmark of a sociopath is a lack of emotion, they lack emotion in their words, their eyes, or their deeds. They are fearless, with an inability to process the complex higher emotions such as fear, they feel no guilt when caught in a lie, remorse when someone dies, shame when found to be a fraud, contradictory statements almost within the same sentence, glib and superficial, callousness/lack of empathy, grandiose sense of self-worth are all signs to watch for. They lack restraint and are completely self-serving and opportunistic.
One of the basic survival tactics for the sociopath is to manipulate others using deceit and lies, they watch you to see if they are getting the reaction they expect and turn on a dime if needed. In places of power and influence they manipulate by pitting one against another, by finding a common enemy, keeping us busy from seeing "them" as the real problem and seeing the manipulation. When we ask the question of what did they care about, it will always be that they cared only about themselves and not about serving their fellow humans.
We know the names of the conscienceless among us thru history, they were the enemies of conscience, a dark crowd that taught rejection, suppressed dissent, sought unaccountability and justified anything. Hitler (fearless leader), Mao, Stalin, we know the destruction they "always" leave, we know charlatans large and small, false prophets now and past will always say anything to manipulate and deceive us and it's always for their own gain, always. So please get educated and get smart and know who the real enemy is and why and how they are evil, it's the ones who are fooling us into believing they care about us while stealing our life our money and our freedom. Peace and love forever.