Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people and mention how important it is that compassion is the key that it's the sine-qua-non of religion people look kind of balked and stubborn sometimes as much to say what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities our faiths our families for our joy our support in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.
