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A Starting Point for a Social Activist Lawyer

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 A classmate who spent time living in India reminded me that often times, things are not as tragic as they seem. The kids I met that day might not feel like their situation merits emotional outbursts by some silly foreign girl. At least I hope they don’t. Admittedly, I am, or was only an outside observer of life in India. My experience was only a starting point. I felt something that made me want to dig deeper and to do something useful, and I hope to renew and remain faithful to that aim.

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  • Reading over the versions here I have the feeling that you took my comments on the first draft too hard, in that you weakened what was strong in the essay too much in responding to my sense of the changes it would be fruitful to make. I thought a little time spent with the emotion of "anger" in response to the recognition of radical inequality might be useful. The goal wasn't to tell you to stop being angry, or to suggest an apology for anger be added to the draft, but to suggest that understanding the emotion—seeing its roots, its causes, and its functional location—and responding to the information about yourself contained in that understanding, would be valuable. Your point that any emotion is more likely to result in action than desensitization is surely right, but that seems to me a valid point once again about the situation, and it takes our attention away from the real subject of the essay, which is you.
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