The state of the world as we know it

We (individual human beings, activists, academics, or however else we may
identify) need to hear other people's stories. Quantitative research is not the way to perform this.
I am not implying that quantitative research is useless; it is definitely very important. Both quantitative and qualitative research are integral to understanding how people live and what their experiences are.
My soul and my passion lie with qualitative work even though I wholeheartedly agree that its unethical.