Some say that people today are losing, or perhaps have already lost, a capacity to be deeply moved by human suffering. The kind of world we live in inevitably has a numbing effect on the human spirit. One hour with a newspaper or thirty minutes in front of the television exposes one to an overwhelming amount of tragedy. Day in and day out, we are served a steady diet of war, murder, terrorism, kidnapping, rape, robbery, and torture. The more we see of man’s inhumanity to man, the less we seem to be shocked by it. Then we come to […]
