I wish 60 million trafficked Indian people got the Western attention one Indian elephant has

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1. I agree. I think it's because we feel we can do something about a single case of injustice

And I think it's because we get a warm fuzzy feeling about Raju (especially since right now he's safe) but we're just so utterly horrified about human trafficking. And, even more importantly, I think we just feel so completely helpless in the face of SO MUCH cruelty and heartbreak and misery: it's human nature to focus on something we can fix rather than on something it would take the world working together to eliminate. (Maybe like global warming... we're so f-ed, almost irretrievably, that I suspect that's why people just don't like thinking about it.) I'm not saying that's a valid reason for giving Raju more attention than trafficking, but I think that's part of the reason. If there were a single child we could save, he or she would get the same attention. I think and hope so, anyway.

But yeah. I agree with you 100%.