It does.
> Images of dead children have great emotional and political power because most people in the world rightfully agree that their deaths are intolerable.
All of them. How is this not obvious?
Not sure if you are in agreement with the comment you are replying to or challenging it. If the latter - your stance does not address the question. All unjust deaths are tragic, we could have thick magazines published daily listing details of unjust deaths of children just in the US. So the question is what do we pay attention to? (Apologies if I misunderstood your comment.)
We collectively believe child murder to be beyond the pale. I don’t think it’s rhetorical but I also don’t think it’s debatable. So, the essence of my comment is this, to be clear: if a child dies due to some consequence of society we’re capable of changing, we should be forced to look upon those images.
> if a child dies due to some consequence of society we’re capable of changing, we should be forced to look upon those images
Just to reiterate: this is impossible due to various unresolvable constraints.
> All of them. How is this not obvious?
Counter-examples are staring in your face in real time. Some are using kids as human shields as we speak, because as far as they're concerned those kids go to heaven anyway (whereas they themselves go to heaven if they kill people of other faith, so why not give kids a favor too?)