Let’s drop the mask: If a hospital explodes in Sudan and you barely flinch, you’re not alone—you’re normal. The truth is, we have become connoisseurs of atrocity, spectators to suffering, experts at avoiding guilt with one sanitized headline at a time.

Picture it: children gasping their last breaths, doctors torn apart while holding scalpels, families vaporized in a place meant for healing. More than 40 civilians, the World Health Organization says, gone in a flash—casualties not of war, but of our shameless global indifference. We scroll, we sigh, we move on. It’s another notch in a numbing newsfeed.

Here’s the rot at the gory center of it all: The world has made a religion of outrage—and that’s why nothing changes. We clutch our pearls, tweet our hashtags, shine up our empathy for a selfie, and then slink back into the warm fog of apathy. Tell me, when was the last time you truly cared for someone far from your backyard, when it cost you more than a second’s discomfort?

Don’t blame the politicians alone. Don’t blame the warlords or their warped logic. Blame yourself. Blame your government, your favorite "humanitarian" organizations, and every citizen of our coddled West—no, blame is too easy: Own it. Because the global system doesn’t just allow hospital bombings; it quietly requires them to keep the engines of war, aid, and convenient ignorance humming.

We draw red lines, then erase them. We declare "never again" with crocodile tears and send reporters to tally the dead—then reward the next regime, the next militia, the next alliance with money and weapons a world away from the charred beds and shredded bodies of Sudan. The stench of hypocrisy is overwhelming—and it’s not just coming from the White House or the Kremlin. There’s a whiff of it every time you prioritize comfort over conscience.

You can blame dictators, broken institutions, bureaucratic cowardice, even the inhumanity of war. But the ugliest truth is this: The world is perfectly designed to enable these atrocities, and you are a part of that design.

Unless you’re prepared to stare that reality in the face—and act, not tweet—don’t you dare comfort yourself with outrage. Hospitals burn because it is easier for us to look away. The blood is on our hands because we keep washing them.

This article was inspired by the headline: 'WHO says attack on Sudanese hospital killed more than 40 civilians'.