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Posted by The Huggy Merchant on August 22, 2001 at 03:13:44:

Robert Parker
(b. 1932) American writer

Maybe the matter of understanding has been overrated. Maybe I don't have to understand your situation to sympathize with it, to help you alter it, to be on your side. I've never experienced starvation, either, but I'm opposed to it. When I encounter it, I try to alleviate it. I sympathize with its victims. The question of whether I understand it doesn't arise. ... Maybe civilization is possible, if at all, only because people can care about conditions they haven't experienced.
A Savage Place (1981)

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: Robert Parker
: (b. 1932) American writer

: Maybe the matter of understanding has been overrated. Maybe I don't have to understand your situation to sympathize with it, to help you alter it, to be on your side. I've never experienced starvation, either, but I'm opposed to it. When I encounter it, I try to alleviate it. I sympathize with its victims. The question of whether I understand it doesn't arise. ... Maybe civilization is possible, if at all, only because people can care about conditions they haven't experienced. 
: A Savage Place (1981) 


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