There may be more important causes, but I don't like to use the more important cause argument. Is it important to have music? Yes. Is it more important to feed the hungry, probably. But if we only focused on feeding the hungry, no one would be supporting the arts, and our culture would suck. So, I am in favor of anyone working on any good cause. And this is a good cause. It's about changing cultural views so that women aren't seen as inherently dirty and mothers aren't confined to the house. That's important.
The only battle I successfully fought was a very small battle. I got a blind-friendly traffic light installed at a particular intersection. It was a good intersection for it - very busy, large, right by a BART (our local train system) station, and only a block away from a blind center, which if you BARTed into, you'd need to cross that intersection to get to. It wasn't the most vital thing to do to change and improve the world, but I think it was a good cause. It was self-serving, I freely admit, but still a good cause. And so many people don't even bother to try for the self-serving good causes. So, I support anyone taking any action large or small that is positive.
Besides, I can't figure out how to rank good causes to figure out which is most vital. Is it education or food or maybe immunizations or housing or curing diseases... which isn't that pointful I suppose if we don't immunize and treat people... or cleaning up the environment. And then I feel bad that I don't put helping animal shelters into the list, but I do think we should help humans first and then work on being better to animals, and yet all those poor cats and dogs and rabbits and such... Which is when most people just give up and do nothing helpful at all. Better to do what you can and not get overwhelmed.
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Date: 2005-03-11 03:50 am (UTC)The only battle I successfully fought was a very small battle. I got a blind-friendly traffic light installed at a particular intersection. It was a good intersection for it - very busy, large, right by a BART (our local train system) station, and only a block away from a blind center, which if you BARTed into, you'd need to cross that intersection to get to. It wasn't the most vital thing to do to change and improve the world, but I think it was a good cause. It was self-serving, I freely admit, but still a good cause. And so many people don't even bother to try for the self-serving good causes. So, I support anyone taking any action large or small that is positive.
Besides, I can't figure out how to rank good causes to figure out which is most vital. Is it education or food or maybe immunizations or housing or curing diseases... which isn't that pointful I suppose if we don't immunize and treat people... or cleaning up the environment. And then I feel bad that I don't put helping animal shelters into the list, but I do think we should help humans first and then work on being better to animals, and yet all those poor cats and dogs and rabbits and such... Which is when most people just give up and do nothing helpful at all. Better to do what you can and not get overwhelmed.