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No it doesn't.

• PavlovsCat 11y ago
  How can someone see the injustice in the world and not be grieved, if not angered by it, and be considered a decent person? If indifference to avoidable suffering and disgusting exploitation and mutilation of living beings is not awful, what is? As Einstein said -- and I quote him not because Einstein is correct by default, but because I think he is in this case, and put it very elegantly and succinctly: > A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. How can someone not have compassion, yet not be awful? How can someone have compassion, yet not care about justice? How about a compromise, how about we define SJW as "stereotype about people of value with values, serving as relief for those that can't hang with them"?
  • thescribe 11y ago
    In my (limited) experience social justice runs counter to true justice with such frequency that to claim it represents compassion is to throw out the concept of fairness altogether.