That makes sense. I guess I was thinking from my comfortable middle-class context, where it's more common to watch Bad Things on TV than to experience them personally. But certainly there are situations in which survival makes compassion a liability.
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Re: not an either/or
Date: 2008-06-03 05:26 pm (UTC)