We philosophers like distinctions. My teacher used to offer a centuries-old guideline -without losing its relevance-: "affirm much, deny little, always distinguish". At the bottom of each person there is more good than bad; there is more nobility than mediocrity. There are more empathetic people than just selfish ones; although good deeds and heroes are often born in the face of misfortunes and difficulties; these awaken us and spur us to leave our comfort zone. More are those who help anonymously with works of real service than those who believe they do it with speeches full of data and numbers, but insufficient and accusing.

A song by Alejandro Sanz also said it poetically and clearly years ago: "Being is not the same as being. Being is not the same as staying, no way!.... It's not the same, it's different ... I want you to know that there are people who try to confuse us. But we have a heart that is not the same. We are sorry, it is different". How true it is, and we know it also through our actions. The Pascalian sentence has been the protagonist these days, because there are indeed reasons that only the heart understands, and this nucleus of the person sees before what is important and with more application than a reason that only calculates the means for the interests of a few, but not of the whole.

Those who know how to distinguish know that one behavior is not the same as another, one decision is not the same as another, one decision is not the same as taking measures before than after. It is not the same thing to help by helping than to muddy everything by omitting the promptness of relief in the face of an unprecedented catastrophe like the one experienced in Valencia. It is not the same thing, but it is necessary to let our hearts be touched, to put ourselves in the other's shoes, to stop and think about what can be done and to get down to work. Those who distinguish know the differences between people, between political-executive and civil responsibilities, between the State and the people, and thus avoid the disorder of confusion.

Not everything is the same; although everything is connected with everything, we all have debts and obligations, but in different Degree. Thus, those who can do more, cannot delay in coming to the aid when the management of another is insufficient; it cannot take days to send food, medicines, military, firefighters. In the face of a national tragedy, a single professionalized and specialized command is expected with sufficient military personnel at issue . Why have journalists, police, firemen, doctors, nurses, professionals with heavy machinery arrived from all over Spain -and from abroad- to the affected areas, many at degree scroll staff , but it has taken, instead, a coordinated financial aid from the executive political sphere? The people know what is important, they do not use the calculating reason of political gain. This time, the people have saved the people and our politicians, in general, have not been up to the task: they have been slow in reaching the essential, the important, which is the common good of all, perhaps because they were in the interests of power and electoral calculations regardless of their colors, their acronyms, their right or left sides, extreme or not. The civil society has organized itself as it has been able to in the face of the delay in sending means and the paralyzing justification of the political class .

How important it is to know how to distinguish! It is not the same to prevent in time, even if dams and hydraulic infrastructures cost millions, than to leave it for later, when thousands of people are affected and hundreds are dead. It is not the same to say "it was your turn and you were not there", than to become aware of the catastrophe and send relief without waiting for your peers, your citizens, those of your own nation, those who pay taxes and the salaries of politicians to provide services. It is not the same to discourse sitting on resignations and political responsibilities building stories, than to get muddy to help and expose one's own health to alleviate the consequences of the catastrophe.

The State is not the same as the civil Society. The latter has been up to the task, attentive and awake; it has become Valencian at the second 2 of the tragedy and has risked its rest, its days off and has set out, and has been muddy to help, to comfort, to bring hope and celebrate that, despite the disaster and the tragic loss of so many people, life was making its way, and that those who left, possibly in some cases, also did it heroically and nobly giving their lives to save others.

Civil society has once again given a lesson of nobility in their volunteers, men and women of all ages who have overlooked their particular interests, because forgetting themselves they have treated those affected as they would have liked to have done with themselves if they had been in that status. The streets of Paiporta, Alfafar, Torrent... were filled with a new flood of anonymous heroes armed with brooms, shovels, boots, water bottles, gloves, masks, bags with food and medicine... Powerful weapons to battle a disaster that seemed apocalyptic! But those weapons together with the blankets and clothes worn by some, the heartfelt looks of others, the prayers of those, the smiles and tears of others, the fraternal hugs and solidarity of all of them have shown, once again, that it is not the same to get muddy to help than to get everything muddy by taking too long to help. The civil society has shown once again what we learned from our elders - grandfathers and grandmothers, true sages - "financial aid he who wants to, not always he who can". But those who could and failed to do so caused a grave injustice. We know it and beyond computer hoaxes, justifying stories, political propaganda -previously manipulated- and injections of fear and hate in speeches that fracture civil society, it has been in the places of the tragedy regardless of being from one side or another, believer or atheist, with tattoos or without them, influencer or simple neighbor, cover artist or a current unknown, Valencian or Asturian or Sevillian or Navarrese or Galician or Madrilenian. It was enough at that time, and even now, not to be a mediocre person who messes everything up and to be a noble person who messes up to help.

We ask the executive powers to live up to the noble and demanding service expected of a politician. It is not the same to "discourse" than to act, and now it is time to rebuild. We do not need politicians to save us with cheap social engineering techniques, but we do need them to do their job well and on time work for the common good, much broader and more demanding than reductionist ideologies and excusing stories that insult the nobility of which the human heart is capable, and of which the Spanish people have done so well in recent days.