March 20, 2007
Another Ruinous Effect On Our Society By Liberals’ “Compassion”….
…. is summed up in as complete and spot-on an analysis of a single event as I’ve ever come across in this column by Dennis Prager.
http://hardastarboard.mu.nu/wp-trackback.php?p=639
March 20th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
It is unbelievable how PC has taken over every aspect of our lives. I remember when I got whipped in sports it only gave me insentive to better myself and the team to win and even get a revenge win against the team that beat the crap out of us the last time. This is part of learning and growing and unfortunatly I also believe that this type of PC is one of the main reasons why we are seeing generations growing into appeasers and Americans who cater to our enemy rather than being willing to stand for who we are and fight for our survival and freedoms. I am not refering to anyone in the military but rather liberals who live and die by PC. They have become so used to looking for the feel good solution that the idea of duty,honor, sacrifice or standing for what one believes escapes their thought process and their understanding. It feels good to not be at war, it feels good to think that an enemy whose only goal is to kill us is just fighting for their beliefs and not evil incarnate. This is the demise of our society and in the long run as much if not more of a danger than Islamofascism!
March 20th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Really good article. I saw a headline today which shows how dumb the main media are. It read “Four Years of War”. Of course, they were referring to the start of the war AGAINST Iraq in 2003, but they forget we have acknowledged that we are at war since 9/11/2001. And we have been at war at least since the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979.
And they also forget that the war begun in March of 2003 was over by July of 2003. We are now ALLIED WITH Iraq against the terrorists. And have been for nearly four years.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Ken –
What is happening is that we are allowing the left to purge our society of all charactar and of all the personal competitive traits that combine to make our country as strong and prosperous as it is.
Hey, Rick! –
The liberal media does all it can to try and diminish public memories of prior Islamofascist aggression against us by concentrating on Iraq, since Iraq is their first line of attack against Bush. The last thing they want to do is show that the War On Terror is a defensive affair — they feel it makes their anti-Bush spin more convincing if they portray our entire Iraq enterprise (as well as the rest of the GWOT) as an unprovoked act of aggression against the “religion of peace” in order to make money for the oil industry.
They really are dumb: The first thing to go under Sharia law will be the 1st Amendment, which will mean they have to stop serving their liberal audience and become propaganda slaves to religious fascism — that’s assuming they aren’t beheaded right off the bat, them being infidels and all.
March 21st, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Prager’s analysis of the consequences is spot on. I have a problem attributing this to compassion itself, or even to the effort of promote compassion in the public sphere. A society without compassion becomes cruel and bureaucratic, leading to an inhuman society, exemplied in modern history in the totalitarian state.
Compassion is one of the highest virtues and is attributed in Scripture to Christ himself. However, compassion does mean muddled-thinking. Nor does it mean tunnel-vision that denies the interests of third-parties.
Compassion can evoke mercy or grace or succor. The key concept is that mercy/grace/succor are GIFTS. They are up to the discretion (or perhaps caprice) of the giver.
The problem that Prager observes is that when you move from the private to the public sphere, what begins as a gift inexorably becomes an expectation or even an entitlement, something that can be demanded as a right.
That is what has happened here, perhaps in the guise of a societal expectation of self-esteem, perhaps a misguided expectation that one must reduce discomfort - or perhaps the expectation that pain must be minimized.
Or even the expectation that hard decisions can be evaded, which is what we see with our society’s response to the threat of Islamism.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Civil Truth –
Your points are well taken.
Perhaps what the left offers might be better defined as false compassion, since we all know pretty well how they stack up on sincerity.
…when you move from the private to the public sphere, what begins as a gift inexorably becomes an expectation or even an entitlement, something that can be demanded as a right.
This has become an epic problem since the rise of the welfare state. This “If you can’t make it on your own, you are entitled to support by the government” belief has been instilled in the children of multiple welfare generations. Most people have a better chance of success when they know they are playing in the big leagues, and there is no tax funded safety net ready to catch them if they fail. It is a built-in incentive.
The self-esteem angle is exactly the same — why should the losing team work hard to become the best when they know it won’t matter, anyway? That the powers that be will simply step in and make them an official non-loser? And vice-versa, why should the winning team work hard to remain the best when they know that in the end, the same authorities will only take away their victory.
What liberal thinking offers people is the option of utter defeat.