Compassion is a concern for your fellows, in good times and bad.
Your compassion is reserved for convicted felons, I know, it's a liberal thing, I wouldn't understand.
Kind of like your ignore, you say I'm on ignore but you keep spouting off!!
Perhaps another liberal thing. Saying one thing but doing another!
Wrong.
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For other uses, see
Compassion (disambiguation).
Compassion personified: a statue at the
Epcot center in
Florida
Compassion is the
virtue of empathy for the
suffering of others. It is regarded as a fundamental part of human
love, and a cornerstone of greater social interconnection and
humanism —foundational to the highest
principles in philosophy, society, and
personhood.
Compassion is often regarded as emotional in nature, and there is an aspect of compassion which regards a quantitative dimension, such that individual's compassion is often given a property of "depth," "vigour," or "
passion." The etymology of "compassion" is Latin, meaning "co-suffering." More virtuous than simple
empathy, compassion commonly gives rise to an active
desire to alleviate another's suffering. It is often, though not inevitably, the key component in what manifests in the social context as
altruism. In
ethical terms, the various expressions down the ages of the so-called
Golden Rule embody by implication the principle of compassion:
Do to others what you would have them do to you.[SUP]
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The English
noun compassion, meaning
to suffer together with, comes from the
Latin. Its
prefix com- comes directly from
com, an archaic version of the Latin
preposition and affix
cum (= with); the
-passion segment is derived from
passus,
past participle of the
deponent verb patior, patī, passus sum. Compassion is thus related in origin, form and meaning to the English noun
patient (= one who suffers), from
patiens,
present participle of the same
patior, and is akin to the
Greek verb πάσχειν (=
paskhein, to suffer) and to its
cognate noun
πάθος (=
pathos).[SUP]
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[3][/SUP] Ranked a great virtue in numerous
philosophies, compassion is considered in almost all the maj
