True. ^^ This story reminds of something that came to my attention a few years back...someone that I know well spent some time with an organization that was helping to free young women that were essentially sex slaves.
The motivations of the person that I know were as pure as the driven snow, she just wanted to help free people who were trapped in a form of modern day slavery. BUT...her actual experience was quite different than anything that she anticipated...as some/many of the subjects did not want to be set free, or at least
What? Of course any free person would instantly recognize that it is better to be free than to be enslaved...BUT...that logic didn't hold for the formerly, or still currently, enslaved people. In many cases they resisted the efforts to gain their freedom as they only knew enslavement and were actually afraid of being responsible for their own lives and well being. While we would recognize the horror of being "kept" in exchange for their "work"...they didn't.
They were often fearful about the great unknown and expressed a preference to remain in their current situation. Egads! But, when you approach it from their experience...it did make sense. It was a difficult thing for my friend to adjust to and the work that she did was not at all like what she envisioned...yet hopefully still worthwhile and productive.
In order to help these people she had to, in some form, cause herself to see things from their perspective. That's what it seems like this teacher is doing...given the story that we know. These days it seems like we only get a partial understanding, at best, from media reports, so who really knows.
