Facing reality
Sometimes reality may make you cry. Shed some tears from anger and some from remorse. But the thing is to reflect, hold your own and move on. No matter where you are, who you are, what you do - at a supreme level each one of us is a human being - with some feelings, emotions and human rights. People should not forget that. period.
So whether you are the torturer or the tortured - injustice on the part of any will have consequences on both and the fire that burns one will warm the other.
As Linda Goodman says, any scientist can count the seeds in an apple, but there is a greater power - he who can count the apples in a seed.