Compassion is a virtue, but it is not the only virtue. And in many situation it cannot be the deciding virtue if a person or a people is to survive. Quick analogy. Two families in close proximity. One husband draws a gun takes aim. and shoots one of the children of the other family. The other husband has a gun as well may be a bigger gun…
Compassion is a virtue, but it is not the only virtue. And in many situation it cannot be the deciding virtue if a person or a people is to survive. Quick analogy. Two families in close proximity. One husband draws a gun takes aim. and shoots one of the children of the other family. The other husband has a gun as well may be a bigger gun. Seeing that his child is injured and that the other man has no intention of stopping and fully intend to kill every member of family if he can and even worse that the man who shot first is hiding behind one of his own children, what should the man with the injured daughter do?
Compassion is a virtue, but it is not the only virtue. And in many situation it cannot be the deciding virtue if a person or a people is to survive. Quick analogy. Two families in close proximity. One husband draws a gun takes aim. and shoots one of the children of the other family. The other husband has a gun as well may be a bigger gun. Seeing that his child is injured and that the other man has no intention of stopping and fully intend to kill every member of family if he can and even worse that the man who shot first is hiding behind one of his own children, what should the man with the injured daughter do?