It means we can politely acknowledge the defeatism that surrounds vast social justice issues like human trafficking and child slavery, and put it to one side. Alexander Pope famously wrote that to err is human. Perhaps. But the research in this section suggests that to care also is, in the sense of feeling the pain of other human beings. It’s just that it costs. We should not pretend that it does not. Nor should we confuse hesitations and misgivings with signs of weakness, moral or otherwise. It’s just our mind doing the maths. Perhaps we cannot entirely overcome the world. But we can engage
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