From each according to their ability. To each according to their need.
Sometimes, what a drowning man needs is a hand that will not let them go. Sometimes, a person who has never been cared for needs to be cared for above all others, in their worst moments. And certainly, all of you need better...more personal understanding than either I or a committee could provide.
Exactly how that care is expressed, and how it is - or isn't - balanced with the needs of the community, well.
As you say, it's all of yours to work through.
If I had an infinite supply of perfect altruists - well, I probably still wouldn't hire only them, because more inmates than not would hate them all on sight. But regardless, I don't. I try to connect people who can offer what someone needs. I use the system of pairings because it works, love. I can't claim to be perfect at it. Rescue is a messy business, and I still don't always understand you all as well as I'd like.
There have been smaller changes, over the years. Part of the impetus behind temporary pairings concerned just that situation - when a perpetrator has a strong advocate, and unpaired victim only haphazard allies or none. I know it's hardly perfect either, but it improves on what came before.
If you come up with suggestions in that vein, Mister Caffrey, know I will hear them.
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Sometimes, what a drowning man needs is a hand that will not let them go. Sometimes, a person who has never been cared for needs to be cared for above all others, in their worst moments. And certainly, all of you need better...more personal understanding than either I or a committee could provide.
Exactly how that care is expressed, and how it is - or isn't - balanced with the needs of the community, well.
As you say, it's all of yours to work through.
If I had an infinite supply of perfect altruists - well, I probably still wouldn't hire only them, because more inmates than not would hate them all on sight. But regardless, I don't. I try to connect people who can offer what someone needs. I use the system of pairings because it works, love. I can't claim to be perfect at it. Rescue is a messy business, and I still don't always understand you all as well as I'd like.
There have been smaller changes, over the years. Part of the impetus behind temporary pairings concerned just that situation - when a perpetrator has a strong advocate, and unpaired victim only haphazard allies or none. I know it's hardly perfect either, but it improves on what came before.
If you come up with suggestions in that vein, Mister Caffrey, know I will hear them.