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What Could Unite Us All: A Plea for Empathy in These Times

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My social media is flooded with posts about child trafficking being the issue that could “unite us all.” Most of us have children, all of us were children and therefore this issue affects us all.

While it’s a beautiful sentiment, I think we, as the human race, can do better. We’ve become so disconnected from our fellow human beings that too many of us cannot empathize with a problem if it is not our own.

Child trafficking is a tragedy and should be fought by everyone, but not simply because it’s personal to all of us. If child trafficking was only affecting Guatemalan children, or disabled children, or children with blue eyes, would it still have the power to unite us all?

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