Pathways to Peace

When concern for the suffering of others is met with views of “what is she lacking personally that would make her fulfillment be contingent upon focusing on other’s discomforts?” and “you don’t know what we/they are experiencing, what gives you/me the right to intrude?” why do some take the struggle of actively addressing injustice and violence upon themselves? When one has “little to gain” and everything to loose, what compels a wealthy person to steel from the rich and give to the poor?