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When you witness someone's private struggle in public

I volunteer at the food bank and I saw my child's teacher there last week and now I don't know how to act around her at school events.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Accidental intimacy with others' vulnerability creates ethical complexity about what we owe their dignity.

Worth thinking about

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