Subjectivity of Victims (or why we like the weak)

1. Adorable pets/

Are cute because don’t have/

Subjectivity/

#haiku

2. Modern subjects will/

Protect the most powerless/

To feel meaningful/

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3. Faraway poor folks/

Tibetans and Fetuses/

Assuage our egos/

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4. Protect those beings/

Who can’t cut our privilege/

Has to be easy/

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5. The unborn are not/

Demanding of anyone/

Except the mothers/

#haiku

6. Protecting beings/

Who are not yet born is easy/

‘Cause they cost others/

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7. Tibetans are real/

In China, Nepal & Queens/

Taking no suburbs/

#haiku

8. Tibetan rights are/

Costs for our rival Chinese/
Not OUR wealth & ease/

#haiku

9. 3rd world Christians are/

Particularly saintly/

(They agree with us)/

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10. Don’t improve the rights/

Of local people who need/

Because we might LOSE/

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11. The rights of the poor/

Are reduced to benefit/

The lives of wealthy/

#haiku

12. In China or here/

Giving the poor more freedom/

Costs powerful more/

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13. Give up your own rights/

limit your own privilege/

To improve the world/

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14. “Ask not what [the world]/

Can do for you— ask what you/

can do for your [world]/

#haiku

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