People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
Wealth and compassion are opposites.
To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself.
It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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