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MikeWaters · 08-24-2007, 05:13 AM

Americans volunteer to help 5 year old Iraqi child who was at a playground, doused with gasoline and set on fire, leaving him disfigured horribly.

CNN ran the story as one of their leads, and their has been an outpouring support.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/...olo/index.html

This is a good example of how it is the SPECIFIC human stories that motivate people.

If there had been a story that 200 child have been burned by terrorists in the past year, there would have been little reaction.

But you have an individual boy, and he is described as depressed and hopeless, and the mother crying herself to sleep wracked with guilt for letting him go alone to the playground.

It motivates to action.

Some here scoff when some people here recall their own specific stories and relate how interacting with a single person changed their view on an issue.

It happens all the time. We are humans. We are tribal. And it is good when the tribe does something right. And it is awful when despicable people do terrible things, like douse a child with gasoline and light him on fire. May they meet an end appropriate to their character.

08-24-2007, 05:13 AM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	a good story Americans volunteer to help 5 year old Iraqi child who was at a playground, doused with gasoline and set on fire, leaving him disfigured horribly. CNN ran the story as one of their leads, and their has been an outpouring support. http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/...olo/index.html This is a good example of how it is the SPECIFIC human stories that motivate people. If there had been a story that 200 child have been burned by terrorists in the past year, there would have been little reaction. But you have an individual boy, and he is described as depressed and hopeless, and the mother crying herself to sleep wracked with guilt for letting him go alone to the playground. It motivates to action. Some here scoff when some people here recall their own specific stories and relate how interacting with a single person changed their view on an issue. It happens all the time. We are humans. We are tribal. And it is good when the tribe does something right. And it is awful when despicable people do terrible things, like douse a child with gasoline and light him on fire. May they meet an end appropriate to their character.