Where Is The Upper Human Limit On Care, Compassion, And Empathy?

I don’t honestly know, but it’s interesting to consider.

Pretty solid 60 Minutes story last night on a weekend-long camp that brings together sexual assault survivors and those falsely imprisoned for sexual assault and exonerated years later, usually via DNA evidence. It’s important to note that the “exonerees” are not from the same crimes as the victims. So this camp isn’t putting “victim” opposite “person they falsely accused” for a game of checkers. There is some distance. In many cases, the victims have cases that were never solved, even after they thought “Oh, this guy did it.” Well, that guy didn’t do it, and no one ever got collared for it.

Here’s the segment.

This is extremely emotionally complicated, because all the component parts are. If you’ve been the victim of a sexual assault, that in and of itself is complicated and most people cannot understand what that might be like. If you’ve been falsely convicted (or even accused) of something, that’s a very unique and…