There are other reasons to act, not least of which is that we should help those who suffer, or are oppressed. And yet is any action really needed, in a cosmic sense? I mean from a perspective that would view us from some distant point in time? And on a scale that positions us indiscriminately, among all the matter and organisms of creation? Regardless of the fact that we are conscious. What would become of the plan we know as ‘Providence’ (if there is such a thing) if we who are currently living agreed to set aside the impulses of civilization and of our own individual psyches, and to wait, as if keeping vigil, for our mortality to bring us our last breath?