There's a lot to be said for "hands on".

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One thing that I have found is consistent in life (and while I am not a hundred years old, just a bit more than half of that, I have not grown  galvanized in rhetoric) is there's nothing like experience.
There are a lot of videos with people talking about the various candidates running for the office of President in the states and almost as many outside of that country and they have their "camps" and they say pretty much the same things depending on their "camp" but Susan Sarrandan said something completely outside the topic of the election that really resonated with me.
She said that Syrian refugees have become a concept and she wanted to go there and get real stories of real people.  Her grandfather was a person fleeing war to live in the U.S. and a very real person to her.  Whatever the issue, there is nothing like real experience.  Actual hands on experience has to have an equal voice when policies are written.  It just makes sense.  
"It's a terrible thing to reduce anyone to just being a 'concept'"  --Susan Sarrandon.  It is a terrible thing not because it feels bad for "the poor", the "mentally ill", the "refugees", it is a terrible thing because it allows ACTUAL crimes against ACTUAL people to be committed under the guise of policy.
There is a big difference between a "solution" and a crime.  If it is a crime it should be called a crime and we should have to learn to live with it or change it.  But most importantly we should not be allowed to lie about it.

I think that feeling comfortable should not be a goal in life if it involves coming up with ways to distance oneself from others. We can't pretend to have all the answers but there is great harm in pretending that questions are instead statements.

My grade five teacher used to say, "I don't know what experience is good for but it sure beats sitting on your hands".