Authoritatively, one cannot speak for others politically. It just further objectifies them. In a world where "national interest" is the justification for all foreign policy, humanity is stripped bare of what makes it humane. I cannot speak for the Congolese killing themselves now, as coltan is harvested for our cell phones; my frame of reference is the cost/benefit of getting a phone versus the violence towards women and ever younger child mercenary. The president of the Sudan laughed at us and drank his Coke filled with Arabic Gum at the threat of us shutting down his genocide. We are light years behind the reality of the world, and ever distant from it.