"The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money" (Kidder 16).
I feel that this quote applies to our world today. There are all these disasters and tragedies happening around the world that we easily ignore and push out of our mind. When the problems are not present in our own lives, it is hard for us to realize the truth about what is happening. Since we can't see it and we don't experience these problems, we do not do as much as much as we should. The closest thing that we have to seeing the problems are in the news and in ads on the television. We are separated and so the situation seems surreal, and maybe we will send money to help the problem, but most of us don't do anything at all.
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