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It could actually be the other way around-- an exponential decay. You would be horrified by killing one person, but as the numbers grow, the killings get more impersonal and therefore easier. However, killing a billion people one at a time would still hurt as much as killing one person times a billion.
Actually, it's probably more of a twisted, jumbled mess of a correlation that no one has the time, resources, or heart to untangle.
Actually, it's probably more of a... hold on.
[EDIT: I had originally made a very detailed graph out of characters, but it didn't format correctly when I posted, so...]
There! A skewed S-curve with a negative exponential progression!
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic" -- usually attributed to Stalin.