The point isn't to 'think of the children' but that the only way to address these injustices is to do literally that, there is no way around ethics by way of in

The point isn't to 'think of the children' but that the only way to address these injustices is to do literally that, there is no way around ethics by way of intellect or dwelling on abstract issues. Some of the worst camps humans have been shoved in have been during modernity, using modern tools conceived of by people with very big brains. People who have no interest in the ordinary suffering around them are much more likely to add to it. Or going with Rousseau: "Distrust those cosmopolitans who go to great length in their books to discover duties they do not deign to fulfill around them. A philosopher loves the Tartars so as to be spared having to love his neighbors.”