"But while solipsism is a general tendency of human existence, we are especially likely to objectify others and to retreat into forms of solip- sism when we are not equals and do not share a social world. And it is easiest to disregard the suffering of those who are the most different from ourselves. Thus, even though it disrupts my solipsism, the sudden discov- ery of myself in others does not necessarily produce in me a concern for their well-being on which I will act. To repeat, the body is not, for Merleau-Pontya "short cut" to a common ground."