Our comfortable middle class world is full of caring groups that want to for instance: stop genocide in Darfur without armed intervention or end the use of animal testing in drug development.  These groups use code words that if you know them indicate that they are powerless but are unwilling to admit it.  Here are three examples for your consideration:

“Educate yourself” Means: you are without influence in this matter give us money.

“Raise Awareness” Means: The entire group has no influence give us money.

“Core group” Means: Not many people came to the event give us money.

Caring groups tend to disregard the real trade-offs that changing outcomes will entail. They focus on the benefit not the cost.  Caring is over-rated as a strategy. For instance: if there is a genocide in Darfur, although Doctors without Borders says there is not, the way to end it is with an army poised to invade and take out the perpertrators.  Caring couldn’t stop Stalin or Hitler and it can’t stop the generals in Sudan.