Not to be overly philisophical here, but: I think that compassion is a good thing. Not just kindness or sympathy which can be inappropriate to the situation, but compassion. I think compassion is rooted in understanding, and the goal would be to make the person or situation Be better, not just Feel better. That might mean "be beaten publicly and put in the stocks" but all the same I don't think contempt should be promoted in humanity.
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