Compassion

For those on the bottom, Compassion may come easier, since in being closer to the unfortunate it is easier to relate. If one watches who it is that gives to the street beggar one might find that the ones that can least afford to give - give the most, and those who can most afford - give the least but more don't give at all. It is necessarily not easy for anyone to relate to the beggar, unless they themselves finds themselves in such a situation. If the charity of others, means whether one will spend the night hungry, one comes to understand the meaning of what it is like for those who are begging. Compassion is as the saying goes 'walking in another's shoes'. Compassion is understanding the circumstance and dynamics of others, along with the premise, 'but for the grace of God there go I'.

By the fundamental principle of progressive development, the Materialist would not have much Compassion or empathy for that which is inferior and that which must be necessarily removed to make way for the new, improved, superior and elite models. Nor would they have much Compassion for the 'evil ones'. Inferiority and evil is generally to be dreaded, shunned, destroyed, avoided, replaced or converted. It is not to be sympathized or empathized with.

The best that the Progressive Materialist paradigm has to offer is Charity. Charity is often an exercise in sympathy. And sympathy often is an exercise in the beneficence of superiority. Charity primarily consists in the distribution of excess, without making any fundamental changes in the system that promotes and preserves inequitable status quo and elite social classes. As the saying goes it is better to give a person a fishing pole rather than just a fish.

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