The power of our emotion is like a camera with a fixed focal length that generates sharp pictures at one distance (the personal perspective) and blurs objects either too far or too near. The aggregates that are significantly higher than the individual—species or society—are too abstract. They attract our emotional attachment only indirectly, through individual representatives (for example, a dying child). The units smaller than the individual (such as a body cell or a gene) do not attract our emotional attachment.
