To reverse indifference, love must become practice. Political theorist Joan Tronto, Moral Boundaries (1993), outlines an ethic of care that begins with noticing needs, continues with taking responsibility, and culminates in competent, responsive action. Likewise, Martin Luther King Jr. warned in 1967 that the silence of the good is the deeper tragedy; voice and presence are the remedies.
Therefore, choose small fidelities: answer bids for connection, witness for the ignored, remember the forgotten. Through such acts, love reclaims its opposite and reopens the human bond. [...]
