Reading about the death of Ben Bakers family members in Haiti in an OP here.

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41. There are many situations in life that would fit your description

of being foolish in dangerous situations.

I am thinking of Doctors Without Borders, Chef Andres, charities bringing aid to Gaza, resistance fighters in WWII, the people who sheltered Anne Frank's family in Nazi occupied Amsterdam, the Danes who shipped Jews to Sweden when Nazis tried to round them up, the Freedom Riders on Greyhound buses in the US, 16 year old Stephania Podgorska and her 7 year old sister who, alone without parents, sheltered 22 Jews for 2 years in Nazi occupied Poland. (Stefania was an idealistic, devout Roman Catholic.)

People do good things in dangerous situations. They save lives. Sometimes they lose their own lives. They try to make the world a better place. They sometimes succeed and sometimes fail. Sometimes they die in the process but others take their place.

I met a local woman who, in her 60s, made several trips into and out of Ukraine with her son when the Russian invasion began. They took supplies into Ukraine and refugees out to Poland, especially women with children and the elderly and sick. She had past experience in Ukraine as a Peace Corp volunteer. She felt compelled to help. She set up networks with individual volunteers and with religious groups to continue the flow of aid and donations. She helped establish a shelter for refugee women and children in Poland. She told me that her faith was part of her commitment to what she did. Her church did not send her, but when they learned what she was doing, they supported her with donations.

People try to do good things in dangerous situations.