If you feel pity for an adversary you're only giving them an infiltration route into your soul. It's not a good move.
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too many adversaries are simply outgroupers. not listening to/empathizing with the outgroup has its own problems.
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Circle jerk is an insult an ingroup tells about the outgroup, defection is solely an ingroup problem, and witch-hunts ...
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circlejerk makes one ignore valuable input. defection as per prisoner's dilemma can happen between any two parties
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think war (defection) vs peaceful coexistence (cooperation) or even dissolution of borders (merger between the two parties)
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.. and then, one could add, no one wants to be pitied by their friends, or at least, not often...
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dubious claim. compassion needn't be pity.
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It's a fairly synonymous physiological affect in my understanding, but I'm not saying it's always bad ...
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but basing an ethics on the supposed goodness of compassion in all circumstances for everyone universally is madhouse
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which is why everything from customs to rules, laws and dogmas is held in check by practicality.
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Nietzsche would say if you want to affirm life in all it's suffering and terror cultivating a compassionate ethics is disastrous.
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Buddha would say, accept the suffering in all its gory glistening glory and be compassionate anyway.
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