What is Compassion?
Wow. My friend Frank just made what I regard as a really piercing observation in a post on his site. Here it goes:Real compassion means suffering with somebody, because you care about them so much that you're willing to give your energy, your time, and your whole self to them. It doesn't mean giving a homeless man some cash; it means getting down and dirty into the nitty-gritty details of his suffering, working with him to make his concerns your concerns.
Too many people want to end suffering because it causes them to become uncomfortable. Not because they do have compassion but because they don't: the possibility of suffering simply disgusts elitist people. 'How could anyone live like that?' they wonder. The disabled, the unwanted, the unloved -- these do not fit into their Grand Utopian Visions, where everybody is Equal (that is, the Same). So if We cannot help you (i.e., make you the Same as the Rest of Us) with a Government Program, you can be erased. Hence abortion and euthanasia. And they call themselves `Progressives'.
Welcome to the Brave New World.
Intense.
posted by ertandberni @ 1:19 AM
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