[Mind's Eye] Re: Moronic Human Compassion

[frantheman]

On 13 Jan., 20:49, Slip Disc <bug...@gmail.com> wrote:
Compassion definitively infers the alleviation of
> pain or suffering, mental or physical, through some type of
> interaction or intervention and I would think that compassion is a
> valuable asset to all of humanity.  

The problem is, Slip, that this is NOT what compassion is - compassion
is deep awareness of the suffering of another, literally, "feeling
with ..." http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compassion The problem in
George's case, it seems to me, is that the practical reaction to
compassion about his situation was not particularly well thought
through. A particularly useless "beau geste."

Francis
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