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As for the mentally ill roaming our city, Torres said allowing them “to languish on the streets and subways of New York is cruelty cloaked in compassion” — adding that Ramon Rivera’s fatal ...
According to Schopenhauer: "Since compassion for animals is so intimately associated with goodness of character, it may be confidently asserted that whoever is cruel to animals cannot be a good man", [1] and finally, that "Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality", echoing Buddhist views on animal ethics; [5] however, Schopenhauer ...
"Truth for its own sake can be a deadly weapon in family relations. Truth without compassion can destroy love. Some parents try too hard to prove exactly how, where and why they have been right. This approach will bring bitterness and disappointment. When attitudes are hostile, facts are unconvincing." [6] (p. 38)
Compassion involves "feeling for another" and is a precursor to empathy, the "feeling as another" capacity (as opposed to sympathy, the "feeling towards another"). In common parlance, active compassion is the desire to alleviate another's suffering. [1] Compassion involves allowing ourselves to be moved by suffering to help alleviate and ...
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
Cruelty (rnam-par ‘tshe-ba) is a part of hostility and has three forms. Hooliganism (snying-rje-ba med-pa) is a cruel lack of compassion with which we wish to cause mischief or harm to others. Self-destructiveness (snying-brtse-ba med-pa) is a cruel lack of self-love with which we wish to cause mischief or harm to ourselves.
The expression of compassion was well before Christ Jesus appeared on earth. In Psalms 86:15, we read, “But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion….” And, Christ Jesus so many times ...
These ideas about truth and its relation to human language have been particularly influential among postmodern theorists, [4] and "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense" is one of the works most responsible for Nietzsche's reputation (albeit a contentious one) as "the godfather of postmodernism."