Its not lack of emotions. Its the opposite of an empathetic person, someone who experiences empathy. It just means that an apathetic person does not experience empathy (putting themselves in other people’s shoes). Now this does not mean they cannot pity, because empathy and pity are two different things yet sometimes have the same outcomes. Apathy is not a choice, either you are an apath or you’re an empath. Someone cannot choose to be either, its how we are born (sometimes made). If they are choosing an apathetic response then they are just being a ****.