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Hang on hang on.
I know there are bad things happening and worse things elsewhere and round the corner worse things again. But please let us all realise that compassion is NOT relativistic. It cannot be summoned on demand and none of us, if truth be told, will deploy it evenly or appropriately, in every case.
It is unfair to demand that an expression of such is immediately followed by an expression of compassion for another event, just because one person's mind the second example is more or equally 'worthy'.
I readily, if with some embarrassment, admit myself to not feeling enough compassion for strangers often due to their distance in miles, in culture, in living standards and sadly, but truthfully even in race (odd, as I also believe the only reasonable definition of race is 'species').
May I suggest we accept compassion where it is expressed, and not call it false or unworthy, because there is not enough always compassion to go around? It may be just unexpressed, for complex reasons.
I would also like to suggest that the exercise of such higher emotions is a GOOD THING and likely to lead to greater compassion for other people, events, situations.
Leave the flower to bloom, don't strangle it with competition. Wherever you find it.
It's not about compassion. It's about Billy not getting the point of why I opened this thread to begin with.