We cannot choose which generation we are born into. We cannot choose how others will act. We cannot choose how the world lurches, and what avenues of action open and close for us with each jerk. But we can choose to act for justice, even if those choices are very small. We can choose to join together with others to push back against immiseration and death. We can choose to act on the knowledge that this isn’t right, that all these people — people like us and people not like us, for every us you’re a part of — all these people deserve to live.