Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.
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What one generation finds ridiculous the next accepts and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.
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Were we incapable of empathy of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind then reason without emotion is impotent.
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