It's OK to feel your emotions and make decisions based on them. Life isn't a business where everything comes down to a cost-benefit analysis. There are real people living in these conditions and I bet they're wondering why nobody is helping them. If you were in their shoes, how would you feel about our inaction?

What if Nazi Germany stopped short of trying to invade western Europe and Russia yet still had it's concentration camps? Would you have argued that it's not worth the cost of war to put an end to them?