A thread: if there's a throughline in my reporting over the last 5 years it's leaders putting abstract ideas above the safety lives well-being of children...and people still following those leaders and organizations. Putin clearly believes his ideas about Russian identity... 1/
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1520118364613619712
...matter more than the kids who are dying and being harmed in #Ukraine. And so far Russian people/soldiers are going along with that. It's baffling to stand in a church where a funeral for a young child has been held and contemplate that moral math 2/ 
But in fact I've seen this pattern before. Big Pharma kept marketing and selling #opioids aggressively and illegally long after it was clear they were leading to high rates of addiction\death often among young people. Executives and rank and file workers went along with it. 3/
In the child sexual assault crisis, similar pattern. Over and over people protected their churches and their clubs and their non-profits and their schools instead of protecting children. 4/
I'm left as a journalist with more questions than answers. Why isn't it easier for people to ask will this hurt/kill children? Is this idea/profit/war/institution/belief really worth that price? And if your leader says it is worth it...should they be your leader? /end
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