A horrifying human experience is living in a war zone. It’s not having to move to a different bart car or endure a pan handler requesting money.
Much easier to hide from this, one way or another. Some do it with platitudes about fish or hard work, others with demands that the super-rich pay more taxes, still more with karma and the mysterious workings of the divine.
That's all very human.
Suffering may exist. But when it is outside of one’s actual sphere of influence, and not caused by you - it is not really your business.
Turning it into an imperative is actually inverting the ownership involved, and trying to turn someone else’s pain into yours.
Which is the toxic part. As it disconnects the situation from who really does own it, and who really does have it within their sphere of influence.
Sure, but it is (to varying degrees between each person and situation) hard not to make this error when you're face-to-face with it.
> it is not really your business.
On a personal level, perhaps not; but hence the left half of politics, all the way from "lets not cut taxes" to actual literal Communism.
The history of aid to Africa causing economic disruption and further long term misery being a good example.