--- colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mytake on compssion has nothing much to do with > udnrstanding what people > do-the why's and wherefore's-it just has to do with > feeling comapssion > for people who do terrible things-there but for the > grace of God go i > type of feeling.
To me, it's pretty much the same thing. First I try to understand why someone might have done something terrible. I can sometimes understand that, if I had been pushed a bit harder, I could have ended up doing something pretty terrible. (In some cases, maybe I should have!) If I can't figure it out, I come to the conclusion they're "just nuts" (one of my mother's favourite expressions for people who did things that she thought were crazy, often things that weren't terrible at all, but just out of line with the way she thought things should be)and they can't help it. Sometimes I can figure it out, but they're still "just nuts". Either way, there but for fortune go you and I. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
