Social Justice.

I'm not sure if you read anymore, but know that I still read yours daily.

I said, "You should come to The Rescue Mikey!!"

Mikey: "What's that?"

Me: "It's the thing I tagged you in on facebook"

Mikey: "Oh, I read part of it... what, is it about starving children in Africa or something?"

I'm so frustrated and disheartened with our society's intense apathy towards the world around us and the people in it. No matter what you believe, we should try and help those who cannot help themselves. We should try to better the world no matter the reason (humanistic or religious, etc.). 

In general, most people believe it is important to live up to a certain standard. For example, most believe that murder is wrong, most believe that rape is a crime, and most believe that we are entitled to certain rights (i.e. food, clothing, shelter, etc.)  just for being alive, just for being human.

Do these rights not cross oceans or territories? Do they stop just outside our reach? Are we entitled to more rights than those who live in a different time zone?

No.

So tell me... why then, do we find ourselves willing to be blinded from all of those people who are stripped of these 'rights' daily? 

How can we sit here content in the fact that people are starving and we waste more food than they receive? 

How can we live knowing that there are still people in bondage for their entire lives and we are doing nothing to free them?

How can we sit here when children are kidnapped into armies and trained to kill at the ages when we were sitting on our parents' laps, reading books, or watching cartoons? 

What gives us the right to go on as if nothing is wrong and leave these people to fend for themselves?