The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.

People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.

Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is.

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.