There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.
Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.