• Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 hours ago

    I do have compassion for people who die of diseases or mental illnesses and stuff. But drug use I really don’t have sympathy for.

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      5 hours ago

      Okay, that’s not really compassion. People don’t need to deserve or earn compassion. Having compassion for someone doesn’t mean that you approve of their actions. I don’t think you actually understand what is being said. Your response didn’t really engage with anything I actually said; you’re just restating your same initial feelings, as though trying not to acknowledge what you were responding to. This is exactly the failure to process that I was alluding to. You just turn off part of your brain when it’s desirable not to understand something.