Spiny Norman said:

Because of course.

He would not change his mind.

I think that he’s so totally self-absorbed and narcissistic, so used to privilege and so used to being isolated from 99.9% of the world and the people who live in it, that he’s so used to being able to just walk away from things and ignore what happens to ‘nobodies’ that he has no capacity for empathy or understanding.

Some of this may be inborn to him. some of it may be due to his upbringing. Some of it he may have learnt since he began to be independently and fabulously wealthy.

Wherever it came from, i don’t think that he gives a shit if anyone dies, or if everyone dies.