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άȨԼͬ±СҿʼجΣϵجΣȫйء
and yet i also learned more about human goodness at amnesty international than i had ever known before. ͬʱҲ˽ǰҪܶࡣ
amnesty mobilises thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have. the power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners. ordinary people, whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never meet. my small participation in that process was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of my life.
ԱǧûΪܵĥˣȥΪЩֲҵ˱ߡͬĵж˵ĸͰȫб֤ͨգЯֺЩزʶҲԶˡԼһ̣Ҳ˸
unlike any other creature on this planet, human beings
can learn and understand, without having experienced. they can think themselves into other people's places. ͬκĶѧϰδĶǿԽıġصˡ of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral. one might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathise.
Ȼ鹹ħһڵġһ˿ܻȥݿƣҲѡȥ˽ͬ顣
and many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. they choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. they can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. ܶѡȥʹǵѡԼʵԸȥڱǿԾܾȥ˵ļУһ;ǿԷԼģֻҪʹˣǿԾܾȥ˽⡣
i might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that i do not think they have any fewer nightmares than i do. choosing to live in narrow spaces can lead to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. i think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. they are often more afraid.
ҿܻܵջȥˡҲΪجλҸ١ѡխĿռ䣬Ե²ԿҰԼ־СΪԸչ˻ῴĹޣе¡
what is more, those who choose not to empathise may enable real monsters. for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.
ǣЩѡȥͬˣܻἤĹޡΪԼûзȴͨĮ֮ᡣ one of the many things i learned at the end of that classics corridor down which i ventured at the age of 18, in search of something i could not then define, was this, written by the greek author plutarch: what we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
18꿪ʼӹŵѧмȡ֪ʶ֮һʱ
ȫ⣬Ǿϣ³˵Ļõģıڵʵ
that is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. it expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people's lives simply by existing. һ˵۶ϣÿһﱻ֤ʵָⲿϵĴڽӴ˵
but how much more are you, harvard graduates of XX, likely to touch other people's lives? your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. even your nationality sets you apart. the great majority of you belong to the world's only remaining superpower. the way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders. that is your privilege, and your burden.
ǣѧXXҵǣǶпȥ˵?ǵǻۣŬԼܵĽǶصĵλΡǵĹҲ
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