In General, Talking About Human

If You Just Try To Make Rational Arguments About Why People Should Care About Congo And How 5 Million People Have Died, Then People Tend Not To Be Receptive. But Once You've Created A Connection Of Empathy, Rational Arguments Can Play A Supportive Role.

Look, We'll Have To Confront The Pathologies Of Poverty At Some Point. We Can Deal With Them Cheaply At The Front End, In Infancy. Or We Can Wait And Jail A Troubled Adolescent At The Tail End. To Some Extent, We Face A Choice Between Investing In Preschools Or In Prisons.

When Anesthesia Was Developed, It Was For Many Decades Routinely Withheld From Women Giving Birth, Since Women Were "supposed" To Suffer. One Of The Few Societies To Take A Contrary View Was The Huichol Tribe In Mexico. The Huichol Believed That The Pain Of Childbirth Should Be Shared, So The Mother Would Hold On To A String Tied To Her Husband's Testicles. With Each Painful Contraction, She Would Give The String A Yank So That The Man Could Share The Burden. Surely If Such A Mechanism Were More Widespread, Injuries In Childbirth Would Garner More Attention.

Neither Western Donor Countries Like The U.s. Nor Poor Recipients Like Cameroon Care Much About Africans Who Are Poor, Rural And Female

While Americans Have Heard Of Darfur And Think We Should Be Doing More There, They Aren't Actually Angry At The President About Inaction