The Way You Get Leaders To Care

You Will Be Judged In Years To Come By How You Responded To Genocide On Your Watch.

For Most Of History, Genocide Was Just Something Governments Did And Nobody Blinked.

Photographs Are Still Being Taken But Aren't Being Shown. There's One Of A Skeleton Bound At The Wrists With Pants Still Around Its Ankles; If It Was A Woman, She Was Likely Raped; If It Was A Man, He Was Possibly Castrated.

Our National Leaders Tend To Try To Protect The National Interest As They See It. They May Screw Up In That, But They At Least See That As Their Role. In Contrast, Where Issues Of Our National Values Are Involved, Which Covers Pretty Much Any Humanitarian Issue, They Pretty Much Drop The Ball.

When Anesthesia Was Developed, It Was For Many Decades Routinely Withheld From Women Giving Birth, Since Women Were "supposed" To Suffer. One Of The Few Societies To Take A Contrary View Was The Huichol Tribe In Mexico. The Huichol Believed That The Pain Of Childbirth Should Be Shared, So The Mother Would Hold On To A String Tied To Her Husband's Testicles. With Each Painful Contraction, She Would Give The String A Yank So That The Man Could Share The Burden. Surely If Such A Mechanism Were More Widespread, Injuries In Childbirth Would Garner More Attention.