Valuing One Single Small Life


	Valuing One Single Small Life

abailart

6-4-2008 3:51 AM

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abailart says:

A reminder, I suppose.

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He was deserted by his mother at birth and
survived by his wits as a literal infant. 
He begged for food from seedier neighbourhood hangers-on, those scarcely
better off than he. He scavenged for meals through rotting garbage in
restaurant dumpsters, running between shadows on the precarious New Orleans
lakefront. He occasionally trapped a fish which had strayed into the shallows
or found a recently dead crab washed up on the shore.
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There are so many of them, so many innocents
taken up in the tide of misery and forged into a singular face - the cyclone
victim in Myanmar, the quake casualty in China, the tortured child of Sudan.
Too many. And too much pain for the "civilised" world to bear. For whose
convenience they are transformed a solitary, horrific entity.  Some unified image to haunt the nights of
liberals worldwide. Who, like me send a pound, a euro, a dollar, and try to
forget the individual faces. They are too much for the heart when considered
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