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diff --git a/content/entry/on-compassion.md b/content/entry/on-compassion.md index f8ac7a2..630ca42 100644 --- a/content/entry/on-compassion.md +++ b/content/entry/on-compassion.md @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ title: "On Compassion" date: 2021-10-19T00:00:00 draft: false +makerefs: false --- # The Traditional View of Compassion Compassion for me simply means a concern for other conscious beings, whether those beings are other people, toads, whales, bats, or even slugs. Compassion doesn't exclude any conscious being. This is usually obvious to everybody for non-human animals. Specifically because we never ascribe them moral agency. If a bear mauls someone to death, then it isn't personal. Even the family of the mauled person probably wouldn't hate the bear because they would know it's just a bear doing what bears do. Bears have no concept of right or wrong. So we don't hold them responsible for their actions the same way we do people. We might still kill that bear, but we wouldn't do it out of hatred. It would be killed out of necessity and hopefully as humanely as possible. |