CNN's John Sutter recalls a Buddhist parable that helped him get over his feelings. The story is about two monks who walk for three miles in silence to help a woman crossing a river. He says it shows how we don't always have the same instinct to act when faced with moral dilemmas, like saving a drowning boy or helping someone dying of malaria.

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