What do you make of this

Originally posted by adam warlock
1 - Ye some guards chose not to demean the prisoners, but they at the same time they didn't speak up against the guards that were abusive to the prisoners. One other important fact to notice is that one of the prisoner chose to protest with a hunger strike the guards lashed out on the other prisoners and succeeded in making him the "bad guy". Instead of aware that all of us are bound to fail and being always on the look out for ourselves.

I think a major thing involved here is that human beings are much more likely to show compassion when they're dealing with other people face to face. They're more likely to do bad things to others (or at least allow them to happen) when the victim is someone they can't see -- they become faceless statistics.

For this reason, one idea I've had for things like the Israel-Palestinian conflict is that every time someone commits an atrocity, that person and their immediate family & friends should be required to meet with the victims and their kin and personally survey the real impact that the atrocity has had on real people. Suddenly the "enemy" becomes a real human being with real feelings and a real life - and suddenly that suicide bomb or that rocket no longer seems like an occasion for the entire town to celebrate.