Regards the Pope, I see nothing wrong in trying to predict the chosen one. However, to bet on situations where people are suffering and dying, it's indeed quite bizarre. It shows us how people are freezing inside, as they see each other as objects or just potential means to make profit.

At same time empathy is a hyped word nowadays, it has lost its practical importance. Actually, everything nowadays is based on empty words which have no practical meaning.

And as words lose their practical meaning, critical thinking also gives place to moral relativism, where everything is acceptable and understandable, as long as it's someone you are sympathetic to who is saying or doing this.

The result is: a society of hypocrites and cold hearted automatons living on automatic mode.