"Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand. "The number of victims could reach a million". Thanks to individuals statistics become people - but even that is a lie, because people are still suffering, the enormous number of people in themselves stunning and irrelevant. Look at the swollen belly of child hunger and flies Lazac the corners of his eyes, emaciated limbs: Would it be easier for you if ye shall know his name, age, dreams, fears, you will see the work from the inside? And if so, is this does not hurt his sister, who is next on the burning sand, distorted, twisted caricature of a human child? If we feel compassion, and thus will be more important than a thousand other children who suffer from the same famine, a thousand other young lives that will soon fall victim to millions of fat larvae of flies. " - Neil Gaiman (from the book American Gods)
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 22:59:05 +0000
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