The Squint taking a skewered look
Painting by Peter Cheevers
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The dark side of compassion - pathological altruism
The Dark Side of Compassion
There is an
emerging literature on "pathological altruism", suggesting that
extreme compassion can have downsides such as difficulty passing judgment of
right vs. wrong, and forgiving all transgression and failures of those in the
in-group while acting highly protective and aggressive toward those in the
out-group, even sometimes in the absence
of actual provocation and injustice
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