Honestly, if you care so much about human suffering, I really recommend just like… helping out locally.
And I’m sure there are ways to frame this like “Maybe the homeless person you help feed at the food kitchen will be the person who figures out how to stop the next global crisis” or some shit but like… really I just mean… if you’re against human suffering, go help some humans.
They might not ever be helpful in a global or even national or statewide or local crisis but… they are suffering and need help, so help them.
The effort to help things at home goes much, much farther than your guess works attempt at help for a crisis brewing elsewhere.
I feel like a lot of y’all hone in on crises that are so large you cannot actually do something because it’s a way to prove you have empathy and care but know you don’t have to actually do any sustained work for. Like you CAN’T help, you can ONLY care.
With local things, the only way to prove you care… is to actually do work and not just post about it. And it’s sustained work that never quite stops. You can reasonably make a huge difference.
But you just won’t get attention for it. It’s all the work and none of the validation. Whereas posting about world crises is all of the attention and none of the work.
