Serial Violence

I wonder if we were able to connect with our neighbors as ourselves, or even recognize their basic humanity, if we could find it in our hearts to be as outraged that people in Iraq or the Sudan or or or are being tortured and slaughtered as we are about the innocents here.

Each generation seems to understand this on some level better than the previous - indeed, even during darkest ages, those who hold on to the light can pass it on.