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Where is the line drawn for you to show compassion and/or how far will you go personally?
Is it a sign of weakness to have compassion?
Is it a sign of weakness to have compassion?
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Where is the line drawn for you to show compassion and/or how far will you go personally?
Is it a sign of weakness to have compassion?
Where is the line drawn for you to show compassion and/or how far will you go personally?
Is it a sign of weakness to have compassion?
There was a recent news story and discussion here about this, I can try to dig up the thread in a bit for your reference.Where is the line drawn for you to show compassion and/or how far will you go personally?
Is it a sign of weakness to have compassion?
Why would anyone think compassion was a weakness? Not to show/have it is a sign of being dead inside imo.
Please feel free to expand on the thought, if you want.Where is the line drawn for you to show compassion and/or how far will you go personally?
Is it a sign of weakness to have compassion?
That's a huge topic! Compassion can be a sign of weakness when people elect politicians who use the Government as an agency of compassion.
Compassion a weakness? If anything, the opposite is true. Only those who are already weak are insecure enough to think showing compassion for others weakens them.
I will go as far as I can without jeopardizing my ability to care for my own, I also will not enable destructive behavior. But most of the time compassion doesn't mean giving materially, just a little of your time and attention. That doesn't cost me anything, so why not?
Compassion a weakness? If anything, the opposite is true. Only those who are already weak are insecure enough to think showing compassion for others weakens them.
I will go as far as I can without jeopardizing my ability to care for my own, I also will not enable destructive behavior. But most of the time compassion doesn't mean giving materially, just a little of your time and attention. That doesn't cost me anything, so why not?
Compassion a weakness? If anything, the opposite is true. Only those who are already weak are insecure enough to think showing compassion for others weakens them.
I will go as far as I can without jeopardizing my ability to care for my own, I also will not enable destructive behavior. But most of the time compassion doesn't mean giving materially, just a little of your time and attention. That doesn't cost me anything, so why not?
Your time doesn't cost you anything?
Compassion a weakness? If anything, the opposite is true. Only those who are already weak are insecure enough to think showing compassion for others weakens them.
I will go as far as I can without jeopardizing my ability to care for my own, I also will not enable destructive behavior. But most of the time compassion doesn't mean giving materially, just a little of your time and attention. That doesn't cost me anything, so why not?
"Showing" compassion is great when YOU are the one doing it on your own time and on your own dime. I think that's the debate.
For the federal gubmint to "show" compassion, though, is to use the resources entrusted to them for specirfic purposes in a fashion NOT specifically authorized.
Now, even though I think that's a less lofty form of "compassion" (I could be REAL generous to any number of charities , for instance, if I had access to YOUR bank account), there are times I think it IS appropriate for the Federal Government to show "compassion" to the suffering folks on planet Earth. Recent example: The people of Haiti. It may not be the proper job of the federal government to give away maybe a billion or more dollars to a foreign land suffering from a natural disaster, but I endorse it all the same.
There are also other kinds of compassion. A drug abuser (addict) might commit some drug-related crime and face a long prison term. But, the law sometimes authorizes a judge to show a bit of compassion, instead, and "sentence" the addict/criminal to a period of REHAB in a drug treatment center, instead. That's a fair form of compassion, too.
Please feel free to expand on the thought, if you want.Where is the line drawn for you to show compassion and/or how far will you go personally?
Is it a sign of weakness to have compassion?
That's a huge topic! Compassion can be a sign of weakness when people elect politicians who use the Government as an agency of compassion.
Compassion a weakness? If anything, the opposite is true. Only those who are already weak are insecure enough to think showing compassion for others weakens them.
I will go as far as I can without jeopardizing my ability to care for my own, I also will not enable destructive behavior. But most of the time compassion doesn't mean giving materially, just a little of your time and attention. That doesn't cost me anything, so why not?
Your time doesn't cost you anything?
On one hand, of course my time is valuable. On the other hand, it's my time to use as I see fit and for the purpose I think is best. If I think spending a few minutes showing compassion for a person in need is a valuable enough use of my time as to consider it no harm to me, who is anyone else to say it's not?
Compassion a weakness? If anything, the opposite is true. Only those who are already weak are insecure enough to think showing compassion for others weakens them.
I will go as far as I can without jeopardizing my ability to care for my own, I also will not enable destructive behavior. But most of the time compassion doesn't mean giving materially, just a little of your time and attention. That doesn't cost me anything, so why not?
"Showing" compassion is great when YOU are the one doing it on your own time and on your own dime. I think that's the debate.
For the federal gubmint to "show" compassion, though, is to use the resources entrusted to them for specirfic purposes in a fashion NOT specifically authorized.
Now, even though I think that's a less lofty form of "compassion" (I could be REAL generous to any number of charities , for instance, if I had access to YOUR bank account), there are times I think it IS appropriate for the Federal Government to show "compassion" to the suffering folks on planet Earth. Recent example: The people of Haiti. It may not be the proper job of the federal government to give away maybe a billion or more dollars to a foreign land suffering from a natural disaster, but I endorse it all the same.
There are also other kinds of compassion. A drug abuser (addict) might commit some drug-related crime and face a long prison term. But, the law sometimes authorizes a judge to show a bit of compassion, instead, and "sentence" the addict/criminal to a period of REHAB in a drug treatment center, instead. That's a fair form of compassion, too.
Forgive me for pointing this out, but the OP addressed what we think and would do personally, not what political policies we do or would support. For a lot of us that's a whole separate issue.
Compassion a weakness? If anything, the opposite is true. Only those who are already weak are insecure enough to think showing compassion for others weakens them.
I will go as far as I can without jeopardizing my ability to care for my own, I also will not enable destructive behavior. But most of the time compassion doesn't mean giving materially, just a little of your time and attention. That doesn't cost me anything, so why not?
"Showing" compassion is great when YOU are the one doing it on your own time and on your own dime. I think that's the debate.
For the federal gubmint to "show" compassion, though, is to use the resources entrusted to them for specirfic purposes in a fashion NOT specifically authorized.
Now, even though I think that's a less lofty form of "compassion" (I could be REAL generous to any number of charities , for instance, if I had access to YOUR bank account), there are times I think it IS appropriate for the Federal Government to show "compassion" to the suffering folks on planet Earth. Recent example: The people of Haiti. It may not be the proper job of the federal government to give away maybe a billion or more dollars to a foreign land suffering from a natural disaster, but I endorse it all the same.
There are also other kinds of compassion. A drug abuser (addict) might commit some drug-related crime and face a long prison term. But, the law sometimes authorizes a judge to show a bit of compassion, instead, and "sentence" the addict/criminal to a period of REHAB in a drug treatment center, instead. That's a fair form of compassion, too.
Forgive me for pointing this out, but the OP addressed what we think and would do personally, not what political policies we do or would support. For a lot of us that's a whole separate issue.