The law has a term for it, depraved indifference.
“To constitute depraved indifference, the defendant’s conduct must be ‘so wanton, so deficient in a moral sense of concern, so lacking in regard for the life or lives of others, and so blameworthy as to warrant the same criminal liability as that which the law imposes upon a person who intentionally causes a crime.”
http://definitions.uslegal.com/d/depraved-indifference/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3372165/posts?page=69#69
Many thanks for that post! The info will be used on a liberal whom I know.