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“Imagine a fellow in manacles: hungry, thirsty, flea-bitten, tormented by his mind in hideous ways. And you (unmanacled, free, comfortable, sane) walk past. You cannot free him. But you might comfort him. I felt a new and powerful truth being beamed directly into me, by a vast, beneficent God, in the form of this unyielding directive: Comfort. Comfort, for all else is futility.” — George Saunders
Imagine a fellow in manacles: hungry, thirsty, flea-bitten, tormented by his mind in hideous ways. And you (unmanacled, free, comfortable, sane) walk past.
You cannot free him.
But you might comfort him.
I felt a new and powerful truth being beamed directly into me, by a vast, beneficent God, in the form of this unyielding directive:
Comfort.
Comfort, for all else is futility.