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I think it means that a compassionate person assumes the people he's compassionate towards are incapable of bettering themselves, and thus contemptible. I'm no
by maw 18y ago
I think it means that a compassionate person assumes the people he's compassionate towards are incapable of bettering themselves, and thus contemptible.
I'm not sure whether I agree or not, but my first guess is that it's sometimes true and sometimes not. Deep, huh?
- suboptimal 18y agoI think your interpretation is spot-on, but I disagree with the quote. I suspect the author is defining compassion more like "pity" than "patience and understanding" (sympathy, by definition).