It’s the small end of a very long thread, which, if pulled, leads to the thought that we live in an unjust world, and that we have at the very least tolerated, if not perpetrated, this world.

Is the problem of an unjust world ours to solve? Clearly we’re not supposed to add to the injustice. Perhaps under God’s direction we can make some headway, because it’s inarguably a God sized problem.

Political leaders feel they can’t pull on this thread, because to ask the questions it leads to is political suicide, and so they are left chanting “Not in my backyard.” They never have a shot at the real problem.

I completely agree; for a lot of these people a jail in probably any developed nation would be better than where they’re coming from.

But I don’t blame “us” for acting how we do. It’s such a tremendously huge problem. Where do we start? What would it look like if we actually really took a step forward to tackle world poverty? Especially in a case like now where nations are in huge amounts of debt; when so many people are grasping at anything they can to make sure that they don’t end up in poverty? It’s just easier to ignore it. It’s easier to sweep it under the rug and not deal with it.