Compassion Listens

Creating a Compassionate World: Sharing and Caring versus Controlling and Holding, Paul Gilbert.

o   There are three potential responses to suffering that can be referred to as: Compassion is ‘a sensitivity to suffering in self and others with a commitment to try to alleviate and prevent it’.  Callousness, is an insensitivity, lack of concern and indifference to suffering sometimes associated with helping being seen as too costly. Cruelty, is a deliberate causing of suffering for pleasure or sense of power. This shows up in repressive regimes and our entertainments far more than we would like to admit.

o   Link to Article: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.582090/full