Mama Moonbat quits anti-war movement

[Perndog]

No, none of those is an example of what I mean. The first one is just "being a good person", the second one is patriotism, the third is institutional public relations, the fourth and fifth are social improvement. No personal compassion is required for any of them.

[kahljorn]

Why don't you define and give an example of compassion/sympathy in real life, then.
because you said feeling bad for a person and trying to alleviate the problem, and that is basically what i thought of :O
being a good person and sympathy/compassion aren't the same i guess or SOMETHING.

When they helped the victims of hurricane Katrina, didn't they "Care that people were hurt" and then try to "Do something about it?" Yes.

Isn't trying to improve society basically "Caring that people get hurt" by society and then "Trying to do something about it?" Yes.

i think you're splitting hairs and that you're retarded.

here's your original statement:

Being a face on television rather than a real live person in our individual experience goes most of the way to putting her beyond compassion for a lot of us. This is the way people tend to process things. It only matters when it's close to home.