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"For most people, helping with disaster relief, whether you send money or go help build a house, is "being a good person" rather than compassion."
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So you're not, "Being a good person" when you're being compassionate towards friends? I'm not saying they are the same thing, just you know, pointing out a couple of similarities in traits...
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"People do it because it's the thing to do, not because they feel in any significant way for the victims themselves."
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Being compassionate towards friends and families isn't the, "Thing to do?"
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"Everyone's doing it, society expects it, it feels good, and it gives you a shiny Good Guy Badge to show your friends if you're into that sort of thing."
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YOU GET THE BEST FRIEND EVER BADGE. Seriously, don't people feel "Good about themselves" when they act compassionate towards their friends? Aren't their other friends impressed by their compassion?
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"Some people feel compassion for the random people on TV and act on it, and these people help push the social expectations. But they're the minority."
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OH LOL OKAY
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"Now in today's situation, acting out of compassion would be reading the article at the top of this thread and sending the woman money to pay her hospital bills."
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So like uh in real life people are always paying for eachothers bills because they are compassionate? How are there ever poor people who have problems paying for eachothers bills, if it real "Personal" settings everyone always buys eachother the shit they need?
lol
Who the fuck does this, other than parents, anyway? And not even that many parents.
Wouldn't this be considered, "Being a good person?" Isn't this basically the same as giving the victims of hurricane katrina money? By the way, I dont think there was only like 100 donaters, i think there was a lot more... but anyway. Is the difference you're going to point out here to be that they would be PERSONALLY donating to mama moonbat? So your argument would turn from compassion in personal settings is different than compassion for strangers, because you know people personally in a personal setting?
aren't you kind of begging the question in a way?
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"She's in a bad place, and she could use some help. How many people do you expect will do that?"
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I don't know, would you pay for somebody's hospital bill who basically put themselves there because of their own stupidity? Is there a justifiable reason to feel compassion towards her for not eating for over a month and somehow getting dehydration?
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"The same small minority who put everything they had into hurricane relief because they felt sorry for those people."
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OH thAT MINISCULE MINORITy of SINCERITY
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"But in this case, there's no social expectation, so compassion is the only motivator"
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Isn't compassion for friends a social expectation?
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"most people aren't going to help, because they don't really care about her."
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MOST people aren't going to help. There might be like 100 or something but what does that mean? In real life whenever I have a problem every single person I've ever known in a personal setting rushes to my aid and buys me roses, pays all of my bills and cooks my dinner for me.
I'm perndog.
Sometimes I use my brain.