Solutions require more than just math (#1099)

I don't wish to offend economists and bean counters but life is more that just a set of problems on a page. Life has real consequences that affect our quality of being and those virtues. The obvious mathematical solutions are not the answer in most cases. We are not just data processors, we are also empathetic. Our Universe of existence requires that just doing the cold logical solution mostly leaves our compassion without a solution. The old "buck up" is fine when motivating oneself to do more but not to dismissing our compassion in favor of a quick solution. You may be wondering what specifically I am referring, in one case within me is how we euthanize our animals because we have no room for them. Instead of providing animal farms that work with animals and humans to find homes we are too often in a hurry to eliminate our furry friends as a cost cutting efficiency. We do the same with humans when the poor and homeless have little comfort from nature, we tend to dismiss that they exist and don't try to find long-term solutions that would alleviate structural deficiencies within our society. Too much the reality of life inculcates that, even here in the most forward nation the Earth has ever had, we still turn our heads away and search for quick solutions that don't address the problem but instead promulgate the problem. "An ounce of protection is worth a pound of cure", is a wise saying that deals with thinking out ahead instead of thinking from behind. Our minds must move forward from the past into what we want our future to resemble. It is all in our hands, each one of us has the power to direct the present toward a better future of solutions. Shall we start?