I Valued My Comfort More Than Their Pain

I read a thought provoking editorial in the Globe and Mail this morning, that may give us some insight into why some will refuse to get involved in the lives of those that experience agony and suffering. These comments were made in reference to the horrors inflicted by Russell Williams, but I think they can apply to the situation in Haiti. I have included a excerpt below for you to consider. We as the 100-Mile Team have decided that we will not "value our comfort more than their pain." Will you get involved? -Peter

EVIL MUST BE SHOWN TO BE KNOWN

by Paula Todd

From Monday's Globe and Mail

As a young student, I refused to watch images of Holocaust victims clinging to barbed wire in Nazi concentration camps. I turned my back to the projection screen, telling my teacher, “I know what happened. I don’t need to see it.”

That wasn’t the real reason, of course. It just hurt too much. To look into the desperate eyes and emaciated faces of those enduring slow murder. My heart fractured at the agony, the unfathomable loss, the depravity. To stop the pain, I stopped the pictures.

When I refused to watch Nazi torture, I wasn’t striking a blow for the dignity of the captured, or even for our civility. I was protecting myself. I valued my comfort more than their pain.

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