We care a lot when we see one child suffer. But there's a weird cognitive dissonance when it comes to millions of them. It becomes blurred, as though the sheer magnitude of the problem makes it seem less rather than more urgent and ourselves powerless instead of empowered to fix.

Jul 15, 2020 · 3:46 PM UTC

41
132
11
735
Replying to @marwilliamson
We must not look away... We must not look away.
1
2
7
0
Replying to @marwilliamson
something something tragedy something something statistic
1
Replying to @marwilliamson
The same goes for poverty, hunger, homelessness, animal cruelty.........., and all the other critical problems in the world.
Replying to @marwilliamson
The fewer the less pressure but we forget it's human life that's being tossed anyhow like a dice, in the case of covid19 famine & war has been killing huge number of people around the globe for ages yet we ignore it treating covid19 like it's the worse thing we are enduring.
1
Replying to @marwilliamson
I do agree that a lot of things are happening INSIDE US but things like this are not 'individual cognitive dissonance' IMO there's is constant propaganda on all #FakeNews, via hollywood, politicians who DOWNPLAY/Ignore all these atrocities and project the powerlessness upon us
1
3
Replying to @marwilliamson
It is also equally sad that it takes a child suffering for people to make the welfare of children important.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Children and teachers should be protected and politically immune .
Replying to @marwilliamson
Spot on! It's not too late for @TheDemocrats to run with a Yang/Williamson ticket. Just saying... Biden doesn't cut it. @AndrewYang / @marwilliamson 2020 FTW!
1
Replying to @marwilliamson
The caring becomes even less the further the suffering is from one's inner circle and becomes even less if the child is from another "race". We are all one race and we are all connected, only the ignorant cannot see this fact.
2
1