The more you feel someone doesn't deserve compassion, the more impressive and beautiful it is for you to give it to them
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“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
― Pema Chödrön
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That's like the entire point of the, icoinic post "i can tolerate everything but the outgroup" by
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This is approximately the point made at the beginning of this very interesting article:
slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-c
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Communities need to learn the difference between having compassion towards X and enabling X to continue hurting others. Because there are those who will repeatedly seek out and then abuse people's compassion.
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