Feiner Post 4

When I think about the question, "If you aren't part of the solution, are you part of the problem?" I really think about it. In some situations it is really obvious that if you aren't helping, i.e. if you are standing there watching someone be physically hurt by one of you friends or whoever you are with is definitely true. If you aren't helping that person out, you are part of the problem. You are letting it happen and are not trying to save this person. In some situations, not as obvious as that one, I still think that it is true. Think about poverty in other countries. Is there something that we could do, in the slightest way that could help them? Yes. But when I say this I'm not saying that if you aren't part of a solution that is worldwide and difficult to help, then you are an awful person, but there should always be a way to help. There are so many no-profit organizations that dedicate what they do to that exact situation, and many people don't help. Like those commercials on TV you see, where they show the pictures of the polar bears, or helpless animals in a pound that are about to be put down, you always want to change the channel because it makes you feel so terrible to see any living thing in pain like that. Well if you just change the channel and do nothing to help those poor, helpless animals, are you helping? No. You aren't part of the big problem like the people beating these animals, but by not helping you are part of the small problem of letting it just happen.

This relates so much to Sold. Being sold into prostitution in another country, against your own will is a huge problem in many places around the world. We hear about it happening, we are even reading a book about it, but all we do is feel sadness for these poor girls. We are doing nothing. Even donating 5 or 10$ to a non-profit that works with this, is being part of the solution. Helping is all that matters. Like the Americans in the book that come and try to save Lakshmi and any other girl stuck in the brothel. That is being a real part of the solution and no doubt donating any money you have is being part of the solution. It's not bad if you aren't part of the solution to anything, but be part of it for one thing, save one thing, anything, the ocean, poverty, stick with something and help.