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A cap on caring?(letters)(Letter to the editor)

O, The Oprah Magazine

| November 01, 2007 | Vandermeulen, Janet | COPYRIGHT 2007 Hearst Communications, reprinted with permission of Hearst. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

"Why We Don't Care About Darfur" [by Thea Singer, September] highlights an excellent point: that while we'll gladly donate to individual people, in whose lives we can envision making a palpable difference, we're more reticent when it comes to genocide because we cannot mentally process the idea of death when its victims number in the hundreds of thousands. Yes, we can call our representatives and tell them to impose economic sanctions, negotiate a cease-fire, send $2 billion in ...

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