Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease … - Anthony Daniels

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Anthony Daniels

Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.

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