This image shows a very interesting event: A fire on the Mexican side of the US-Mexican border. As most of us know, there are a lot of ill feelings over immigration between the two states; particularly so in border areas. And yet, when this fire broke out, firefighters from the Arizona side, knowing there was no similar equipment on the Mexican side, pulled up theirs and extinguished the fire.

What this situation created was moral clarity: An emergency made it clear that a goodly number of people were at immediate risk, not to mention their livelihoods. In the face of that, people who may have been politically pleased at having a wall of separation breached it themselves, because they cared more about the people on the other side.

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So now, before you go back to the mundane world, think for a moment on seeing people rather than political objects. Also please meditate for a few minutes on Golden Rule: What is offensive to you, do to no one else. That one, simple statement yields more moral clarity than all the laws of the nations put together.