That will not do. The fact that compassion is something one feels does not mean that anything one feels is the compassionate thing to do actually is the compassionate thing to do, or that reason cannot be brought to bear on the matter. The post to which I was responding attempted to claim your side of this argument as the compassionate side on the basis of your feelings, and that is sloppy thought rather than fine feeling.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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