Allegory

I came across this story about charity and justice:

One summer in the village, the people gathered for a picnic. As they shared food and conversation, someone noticed a baby in the river, struggling and crying. The baby was going to drown!

Someone rushed to save the baby. Then, they noticed another screaming baby in the river, and they pulled that baby out. Soon, more babies were seen drowning in the river, and the townspeople were pulling them out as fast as they could. It took great effort, and they began to organise their activities in order to save the babies as they came down the river. As everyone else was busy in the rescue efforts to save the babies, two of the townspeople started to run away along the shore of the river.

“Where are you going?” shouted one of the rescuers. “We need you here to help us save these babies!”

“We are going upstream to stop whoever is throwing them in!”

What would you have done if you were picnicking nearby? Would you have helped to rescue the babies out of the water, or helped by going upstream to stop babies from being thrown in? Or possibly be a bystander and do nothing at all?

"The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything" - Albert Einstein