Reply #35: Any thinking, feeling person will feel slightly insane. [View All]

[Hannah Bell]

It's profoundly unnatural to ignore people in need. To step over homeless people in the street.

The normal human impulse is to offer assistance. That's why, in disasters, people come together & so many people feel such a sense of comraderie; they're working together to help each other. That's normal, natural, human behavior.

The only way we can ignore the need & cruelty that surrounds us - since we can't fix it in isolation, by ourselves - is to shut off our feelings, dehumanize the homeless, or look away. Or to contribute to canned food drives, go feed the homeless at thanksgiving, & the like. There's not much more radical to tap into.

So that's half-way to insane, right there. Denial of reality.