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The victim you can picture
Think of a cause one person's story won you over to. Did it help you see, or keep you from seeing?
A vivid case can move us more than a larger harm we cannot easily imagine.
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A friend shares a video of one child pulled from rubble, and you give money within the hour. The same week a report says hundreds of thousands are hungry in a country you could not place on a map, and you scroll past. You are not proud of the difference, but you cannot quite make yourself feel the second thing.
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