Comments on: Reaction to Davos action with YesMen; Launched Campaign 10 Solutions to End Poverty – sign the petition! http://cinemalibrestudio.com/clsblog/2010/02/05/reaction-to-davos-action-with-yesmen-launched-campaign-10-solutions-to-end-poverty-sign-the-petition/ Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:10:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Dr. Kari Ann Owen, Ph.D. http://cinemalibrestudio.com/clsblog/2010/02/05/reaction-to-davos-action-with-yesmen-launched-campaign-10-solutions-to-end-poverty-sign-the-petition/comment-page-1/#comment-6754 Dr. Kari Ann Owen, Ph.D. Sat, 04 Dec 2010 07:11:07 +0000 http://cinemalibrestudio.com/clsblog/?p=403#comment-6754 The greatest mystery in all of this is not the lack of solutions, but the moral incapacity of those who could make a difference. How does an individual with the political and economic power to remedy injustice find it possible to refuse to act on behalf of suffering humanity? Are they incapable of fearing moral consequences? Are they incapable of reading history? Even the Czar of Russia and the king and queen of France lost their lives when their cold heartedness and insensitivity to the most horrible suffering permitted a final accounting. How can anyone look into a starving face and, if one has the means to end it, do nothing? The greatest mystery in all of this is not the lack of solutions, but the moral incapacity of those who could make a difference.

How does an individual with the political and economic power to remedy injustice find it possible to refuse to act on behalf of suffering humanity? Are they incapable of fearing moral consequences? Are they incapable of reading history? Even the Czar of Russia and the king and queen of France lost their lives when their cold heartedness and insensitivity to the most horrible suffering permitted a final accounting.

How can anyone look into a starving face and, if one has the means to end it, do nothing?

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