It's thought to be a dying craft: compassion on a personal level. A level that puts us all on the same line of the same page.
One voice can be easily ignored. Many voices are hard to ignore.
That's what this story is about.
Emily Buckley is one voice. Audrey Meyer is another.
The two seventh graders at Amanda Clearcreek Middle School have differing opinions. It's exactly the reason they're doing this.
It's exactly the reason they're all writing letters to state legislators.
Following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, teachers at the school were asked to talk with their students.
Lindsey Hoffer did that. The seventh and eighth-grade language arts teacher had a discussion in class. She pulled articles. She had her class look at the 2nd Amendment.
Then, she did a little more.
"After that day I went home and I was like we can't stop there," she said. "They still have so much more to say."
She encouraged them to write.
Buckley is writing to Republican Senator Rob Portman. Her classmate, Hannah Saum, is helping.
Their letter tells lawmakers it's about lives.
"It's our safety, not theirs," Saum said. "So, they can keep some of their guns, but they're not the ones getting affected by these school shootings, it is us. The 13-year-olds that they might not want to listen to."
Meyer's letter is to Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown in favor of guns.
"It is about how gun control is pointless," Meyer said. "It's not going to solve it and how the people are the problem, not the guns."
Difference in opinion can be a good thing. It can be empowering.
"Their education is power," Hoffer said. "And, if they can be educated on the topic, they can make the changes that they want."
All while showing compassion for those with a different point-of-view.
"We need to come together and try to do something for the greater good," Buckley said. "No matter what our opinion is."
Many voices. All for the greater good.
Hoffer says the students' letters should be in the mail by Friday.