@Gwendolyn2018 a bit different to wanting to have your heart cut out so that the sun rises, or your body thrown into building foundations for the good of the occupants, but yes, I see your point.
No priests and complicated belief system needed these days then, just a sense of righteous privilege or impotent apathy
I do something about that particular issue myself, perhaps will start doing more again, time will tell. It’s the feeling that others don’t that stops me sometimes, hence my post, a few days back, about letting others know your good deeds.

@Gwendolyn2018 yes, we’ll have to agree to disagree, I know no small number of people who spent their lives trying to help others.
Yes, the Le Guin story is not one you ever forget is it? But I still think that many people that are enabling the problems do so because they are too far removed. My own father claims to be convinced that there is no real poverty in the uk; while I remember him grilling my uncle about how he must have known about the concentration camp near his home town in Germany, which he didn’t apparently.
Yes, there’s often a power play in abuse situations, but there are many other factors too, as I’m sure you’re aware.
The disabled, Gypsies and many other groups were also murdered by the Nazis, and continue to be persecuted to various extents.
But we’ve gone of topic of imagination I fear, into the more miserable realm of human cruelty

Yes.

I think we did by realising about the sun and earth’s seasonal orbit although we don’t seem to have quite compensated for the calendar being a tad off, less snow at Christmas and more at Easter now.

Well, at least fiction, don't know how much science there is in these stories.