 Compassion collapses when man is presented with large problems he knows he's too small to solve. Man was not created to easily intuit certain magnitudes. He may happily save a single child, but when called to save thousands of children, he turns cold to a problem now beyond his control. Man was not meant to feel in millions, billions, and trillions. His mind may be able to dream up abstractions of infinity, his soul may longingly sing of eternity, but his heart beats in mere seconds.