User blog comment:Keekian/Doflamingo not caring about his crew's lives/@comment-24850639-20161017202414

Kaido put it best. He cares for them, but he doesn't LOVE them. As much as he may value the work they do and having a "family", he wouldn't sacrifice life & limb for them. He doesn't consider any pieces of that family as absolutely irreplaceable. When Luffy lost Nami, Robin, and now Sanji, the buck stops completely until he gets them back. He wouldn't let ANYONE else be their navigator, wouldn't let ANY level of threat stop him from getting Robin back, even now with Sanji he isn't trying to take him back by force. He legitimately just wants to hear from Sanji's own mouth how he feels about this, and THEN they'll go from there.

Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with putting your life over that of someone else's, but you wouldn't willingly sacrifice the life of someone you love just so you can live another day. Regardless of what Doffy said to Monet & Vergo and vice versa, at the end of the day he still chose to have them killed instead of just taking whatever Kaido was gonna send his way. Still just looking out for #1, which is the antithesis of a selfless captain.