I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.
That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here.