Once there were two men walking along a river. One of them saw something floating in the river. He realized that it was a baby! Without hesitation he jumped into the river to save the infant from drowning. When he jumped in he realized that there were at least ten more in his immediate area, all of them screaming and crying as they bobbed by.
Quite naturally he started screaming to the other man. “Help! Get in here and help me save them!” The other man, however, started walking upstream.
For every one that the first man saved, eight passed him. The first man screamed out “I can’t grab all of these babies alone! Where are you going?”
The second man called back, “I’m going upstream to stop the person who is throwing all of these babies in the river.”
Moral: Dealing with the source of the problem will have a greater impact, and have greater success in actually solving the problem.