Talk politics.

I approach these issues with a sense of morality. I admit that though I am an atheist, some of my reaction comes from the Christian inculcation that I received as a child and my immediate reaction to hearing of a children going hungry or eating rat is to invoke Matthew 25:40 and demand immediate action that will help those in need. I don't address it in terms of policy because policy demands take years to implement and I want that child eating rat to be okay now. I don't kid myself that my desire to approach these issues with immediacy solves anything but one does not need to have the answers in order to feel anguish at the situation.

I say all of that because I want you to know I don't have all the answers before I lob a hard question your way. Can you divorce yourself from the bloodlessness of policy concerns and Obama and electric cars and tell me what goes through your mind when you read of children eating ketchup soup and rat? What is your immediate response? If that small child eating rat were standing before you right now and you as an individual could do something, what would you do?

I have no desire to engage in another bizarre exchange wherein we challenge each others' documentation and I end up repeating my pat phrase to you. I an genuinely interested in what lies in the soul of Jeff and what he as one man in this ocean of human misery would do if only he had the chance.