(July 20, 2014 at 3:29 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(July 20, 2014 at 3:22 pm)Blackout Wrote: Sure, but spending most resources fixing a less important problem is not worth the time. It's like a doctor healing a patient who twisted an ankle instead of performing a surgery to save someone near death.If the patient with the broken ankle is within reach - and the patient near death is half the world away......
We put our effort where we imagine it will have the most leverage. For most of us, that doesn't extend to sub-saharan africa or the siberian tundra. If everybody made the quarter mile circle around their house a better place we wouldn't even be having this conversation..would we? lol All that said, nothing stops us from doing both, but we're still going to see alot more effort expended (and to greater effect) locally, and that's to be expected, isn't it?
Sure, so let's just keep things how they are. I didn't say we should intervene directly, but incentive or promote it. There is nothing wrong and simple acts will accomplish this, the example of prohibiting the burka is a good indirect form of protest.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you