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-Essay- TURIN — Each time. Each and every time one of them dies, we are reminded of the immensity of their choice. The humanitarian calling that continues to set some souls on fire. The Samaritans are not, as some might think, lost and astray; they are simply different creatures in a world where the focus is on the payoff, the outcome, the success, the guarantee. It is hard to comprehend the choice (remorse, doubt, hypocrisy?) made up to the point of the utter self-sacrifice of humanitarian ideology: faces, names, not acronyms or initials. We who stand in front of the television set to see tho…