Something had broken in how we treated each other. It wasn’t about civility or respectability, but about empathy, kindness, and respect. By the end of 2014, I was exhausted from a year of documenting nonstop and often inexplicable atrocities: the Syrian war, the rise of ISIS, Ebola, Russia invading and annexing Crimea, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the shooting down of a passenger airliner in Ukraine by Russia, the kidnapping of girls by Boko Haram in Nigeria, and the Israeli massacres of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Mass harassment and threats had exploded online,
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