Does real creativity require this level of callousness?

I have a perhaps artificial and fear driven blind spot for even speculating around dirty bombs, phosphate(?) projectiles or chemical warfare. Like with mind altering substances I wonder whether I have maneuvered myself in an ignorant, complacent framework.

I used to think that attention towards the seemingly humane suffices.

In recent months I catch myself speechless, and helpless, confronted with unfamiliar discourse and its first hand effects.