You can log off and still care that evil has been done. You can log off and still have a strong opinion. You can log off and still take a side. You can log off and plead ignorance. There is no moral obligation to stare into the abyss, no matter how much the interlocutor needs the world to understand his own anguish.

And that’s understandable. But prudence matters, too. I don’t have any moral obligation to stare at my phone while autoplay burns the images of dead children into my head for the rest of my life. Neither do you.

[I agree with this — to a point. It’s acceptable to avoid that kind of traumatization, as long as you don’t then deny the reality of what took place. I’ve seen *some* of the videos and the pictures, but it’s been hard to look and impossible to forget. However, I think it’s as necessary as watching at least some of the footage of concentration camps that Eisenhower ordered to be filmed to understand the scope of the depravity involved. YMMV. — Ed]