Should we fix it?

We can't fix problems because then people couldn't save you from it.

We can't make things safer and better for every one then how could 1% of people that have quick wit, power, and the courage need to save/help someone because of a problem that could be fixed before people even need to be saved/helped.

I like to think of myself as having quick wit and courage but I have often fallen short of my of own expectations to help those in need.

We can not help the poor in any real way because then there would be no poor to save/help.

We can not take away guns because then good people with guns can't save us from people trying to kill large numbers of people at a time with guns.

We can not really do any thing to help women because, some one, might at some point, come along and see the poor, weak, helpless thing to save her. So she can be made to feel grateful to the person that thinks she is good looking or pitiful enough to be worthy of being save. She must be suitably grateful to anyone that might care about her at all.

We can not help the sick cause there has to be someone for people to feel good by doing as little as they can to help people that need more.

We must never try to change things to help everyone.

There must be a way for the people that have the power to decide who is and is not worthy of saving/helping so they get to act and feel like kind of god.

How do they decided?

Why should we have to care?

How good is good enough?

If more people are good then must they be even better to be worthy of saving/helping? At what point do we start caring about people? Do they have to be, a relative, helpless enough, young enough, old enough, smart enough, do they work hard enough, good looking enough, kind enough, would they be suitably grateful, are they from the right background, do they look and act the right way, to be worthy enough to save/help them?

Do we ask for more of less of ourselves as we do of them?

Critical thinking is important.

I am by no means an innocent of participating in and perpetuating these problems. I live in a democratic republic and participate in and perpetuate the cultural norms that have created these problems so I am just as responsible for this as every one else is. But I think knowing that things need to change is a step in the right direction. We can and should do something to try to make things better.

I'm sure that other people would find different questions to ask and things to change because of their lives giving them a different point of view.

As always I don't have answers only questions. Maybe one day I will ask the right one.

PS

If only we could be as good as we thing we are.