I considered how often I didn't care, simply because I didn't see photos of these people's slain children. Seeing makes all the difference. Once we know something, we are burdened with that knowledge. No wonder many people distance themselves from the virus and its toll. But we do so at our own peril.
Imaginations are limited.
There wasn't a dry eye in the room. He saw students whose teachers were dying too quickly for schools to replace them, and kids who had abandoned their studies to nurse dying parents. And what the issue needed was someone to start screaming. The burden of knowing about AIDS' devastation in Africa needn't be so consuming. Citizens of a prosperous nation can urge their elected representatives to embrace debt relief to destitute African nations, several of which spend more repaying America for their past leaders' loans than on feeding and educating their own citizens.