8 human condition, bears witness, why do we victimize each others during the so short path of our lives? A world which abandons its children in the streets has no future; it no longer renders it possible to create and develop a project of life. A world which neglects its elderly has no past; it no longer participates in the heritage of humankind. A world which only knows and values the ephemerous and escaping (and thereby desperating) present inspires no faith nor hope. A world which tries to ignore the precariousness of the human condition inspires no confidence. It is a world which has already lost sight of the temporal dimension of human existence. It is a world which ignores the intergenerational perspective, that is, the duties everyone has in relation to both those who have already gone through the path of their lives (our ancestors) as well as those who are still to do so (our descendants). It is a world wherein each one survives amongst a complete spiritual disintegration. It is a world that has become simply dehumanized, and which today needs urgently to awake to the true values. 22. Nowadays, there is simply no news at all of numerous other cases, similar to the cas d'espèce, of the "Street Children", daily victimizing likewise poor and humble persons, who do not achieve to reach the international jurisdiction, nor the national one, and who are not even conscious of their rights. But even if those responsible for the established order do not perceive it, the suffering of the excluded ones is ineluctably projected into the whole social corpus. The supreme injustice of the state of poverty inflicted upon the unfortunate ones contaminates the whole social milieu, which, in valuing violence and agressiveness, relegates to a secondary position the victims, forgetting that the human being represents the creative force of the whole community. Human suffering has a dimension which is both personal and social. Thus, the damage caused to each human being, however humble he might be, affects the community itself as a whole. As the present case discloses, the victims are multiplied in the persons of the surviving close relatives, who, furthermore, are forced to live with the great pain inflicted by the silence, the indifference and the oblivion of the others. 23. The considerable scientific-technological advances of our times has much increased the capacity of the human being to do all that is both good and evil. As to this latter27, one cannot deny nowadays the importance and pressing need to devote greater attention to victimization, human suffering, and rehabilitation of the victims, keeping in mind the current diversification of the sources of violations of human rights28. The systematic violations of human rights and the growth of violence (in its multiple forms) in our days and everywhere disclose that, regrettably, the much 27 . For an etiology of evil in the historical evolution of human thinking, cf. A.-D. Sertillanges, Le problème du mal, Paris, Aubier/Éd. Montaigne, 1948, pp. 5-412; and for a more recent reflection, cf., e.g., F. Alberoni, Las Razones del Bien y del Mal, México, Ed. Gedisa, 1988, pp. 9-196. - Besides those monographs, among others, also some great works of universal literature bear witness that, the anguish and vulnerability of the human being in the face of evil, mark presence in all social milieux and in all cultures. In order to evoke but one example (among others), the work of the Russian writer Fédor Dostoyevski (1821-1881), e.g., contains the warning that a human being who, abusing of his free will, victimizes another one (his fellowman), causes a harm to himself, and is punished not only by the law, but also by his own conscience; the reconquest of good (bien), on the part of the victim (and, ultimately, of every human being), passes through suffering, and the search for the meaning of life. 28 . Of which bear witness the violations perpetrated by unidentified agents or death squads, by the persistence of impunity, by the manipulation of the power of communications, by the exclusions generated by the economic power (in particular by the concentration of income in a world scale, which many insist on continuing to call "globalization" of the economy).