General Exalted Discussion Thread VII: Playground Eternal Essence

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Random_Person@ Because Compassion isn't equal with "ruthlessly calculated decision". It make You suffer instead of someone else. Sol didn't suffer at all, ergo it wasn't compassionate of him, merely pragmatic.

Compassion doesn't mean you have to suffer, it just means you have to make someone else not suffer, even at your expense if necessary. What kind of absurd view of compassion is that? Is the man who volunteers at a soup kitchen out of a desire to help not compassionate because he isn't being beaten in the face for it?