Kayin, shortly after killing his brother Hevel tells God, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Kayin tells God it is not his task to look after his brother. He is busy enough tending to his own affairs.
This cold-blooded egoism expressed here serves as a warning: Whoever does not care about his fellow man, whoever adopts the motto “every man for himself” is not far from the hatred that impels a man to murder even the one dearest to him, when he fells that the latter stands in his way.
Beraishis 4:9
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