If we detach from other people´s suffering or ignorance, we are forgetting something essential; you are not "alone" in your mind. Your are the human conciousness.
A conciousness that does not die with your body.
A conciousness that "hates to see children dying of preventable wars, that longs for beauty and perfection.
Why do you come to Steemit?
Just to make a living, so you can keep a cozy place to meditate near your loved ones? (dog included)
Then you are missing a lot of your own nature as a human.
By the way Dan, do not believe anything you hear. You just share a little luckier seat on this little rocky boat and the sea is huge brother!