OPINION: Demonstrations of common humanity are a powerful tool to help us navigate our way through the pandemic.
. But what particularly stays with me now is the effects of the disasters on individuals.
In several earthquakes I have watched as rescuers have tried so desperately to lift and chip away at concrete and rubble and then shouted for total silence to see if anyone trapped below was still alive. The wait for relatives is unbelievably agonising, especially when hope is slowly extinguished.Disasters fast reveal those people who are most vulnerable to their effects — and often why.
In one important respect, I think there is. “Common humanity” is a widely used phrase, so much so that it is at risk of losing its value as a goal to bind us together at a time like this. But it is an immensely powerful concept, a definition in many ways of the concept of ubuntu, so cherished and often talked about by Archbishop Emeritus
that connects all humanity”. All these definitions sum up the concept well. I once heard it said that you really know what ubuntu means when it is absent.
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