For there is a line between apathy and what I guess I would call religious inaction. The two things might resemble each other, but they are miles apart essentially. And yet it is only the compulsions that arrive out of the latter, out of a sense of charity, mercy and justice, as well as, I suppose, an awareness of the behest for the propagation of the human race, as articulated in scripture (at least in the Abrahamic traditions), that prevent some people from withdrawing so thoroughly from the activity or busyness of civilization that they would seem to have lost interest in it, and to have found no purpose in engaging with it.