When do you experience it?
2007-04-09 19:21:36 · 9 answers · asked by InSiteFul 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Compassion is a sense of shared suffering, most often combined with a desire to alleviate or reduce such suffering; to show special kindness to those who suffer. Thus compassion is essentially empathy, though with a more active slant in that the compassionate person will seek to actually aid those they feel compassionate for.
Compassionate acts are generally considered those which take into account the suffering of others and attempt to alleviate that suffering as if it were one's own. In this sense, the various forms of the Golden Rule are clearly based on the concept of compassion.
Compassion differs from other forms of helpful or humane behavior in that its focus is primarily on the alleviation of suffering. Acts of kindness which seek primarily to confer benefit rather than relieve existing suffering are better classified as acts of altruism, although, in this sense, compassion itself can be seen as a subset of altruism, it being defined as the type of behavior which seeks to benefit others by reducing their suffering.
2007-04-09 19:26:23 · answer #1 · answered by son of God 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Compassion is made up of two words. 'co' meaning together and 'passion' meaning a strong feeling. And this is what compassion is. When we see someone is in distress and we feel their pain as if it were our own, and strive to eliminate or lessen their pain, then this is compassion.
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2007-04-09 19:57:37 · answer #2 · answered by wb 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read this quote a long time ago... don't remember where I read it, but it kind of sums it up:
"Pity weeps and walks away. Compassion comes to help and stay."
2007-04-09 19:25:35 · answer #3 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Compassion is kindness, mercy, gentleness all combined.
2007-04-09 19:31:34 · answer #4 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible teaches that our compassionate God will toss us into the eternal flames of Hell (in his mercy) if we don't believe the Bible for any reason, including not having ever seen one.
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2007-04-09 19:25:43 · answer #5 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love and empathy - when I see someone suffering for some reason.
2007-04-09 19:24:03 · answer #6 · answered by Christine S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whatever the opposite of homeowners associations would do.
2007-04-09 19:24:54 · answer #7 · answered by Roman Soldier 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The union of empathy and action. (answer to both)
2007-04-09 19:24:11 · answer #8 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's something that makes us humans.
It's something that help people go through.
It's something that can save a life.
2007-04-09 21:18:08 · answer #9 · answered by lost 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋