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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Can you explain what you mean by the phrase 'Human compassion is dangerous'......I can't really see how it fits in with the rest of your post.
Maybe I am having a 'grey moment'.
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Human compassion is what makes us seek things like revenge for those who have been hurt, its what makes us want those who have caused pain to suffer. No justice is brought by suffering, only satisfaction.
You can just destroy something you don't like in society, it's just not ethical or humane, and the death penalty means someone else has to stoop as low as someone else, and it isn't often that the ones who praise it are the actual executioners themselves.
Many people may say they could easily kill someone who has done something so terrible to another, but how truthful is that when most people probably cant even put, for example, an injured bird out of its misery?
I read the argument about human compassion in an academic article, obviously it went into a lot more depth, but the key message was that it should never be given authority.