Saturday, September 21, 2013

Compassion (#1695)

This post is for those who don't know compassion anymore. Somewhere within their dark cavernous soul is a spark of compassion they had at some point in their life and it is still there if they choose to look for it. Being human requires us to have some regard for each other beyond our own wants and needs. Our humanity requires us to express our compassion in ways that countenance what is best about us for others to see and be reminded of that they also are human. This idea that we are indispensably free from care for another human being is illogical. We are a communal species. We thrive in the company of others and without the company of others our minds tend to depress our hopes and dreams for life. That is why there is no valid argument for any mechanical or automaton existence. First and foremost it takes two opposite sex humans to create a new human so right away each of us is created from the co-joining of two humans in some fashion. We are raised from infancy to adulthood with other humans as a support for our ability to survive. There is no conceivable premise one could start from that would in any other way define us as purely individual. We are part and parcel of those who surround us and those who otherwise influence us. For any of us not to have compassion for those who exist in this dimension is a choice and made from someplace other than our full compliment of abilities. If you cannot find a spark for life within your cold dead soul then I am pretty sure you quit being an actual human the moment you lost the purpose for your compassion. 

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