No no no no, maybe it's a translation problem, but where I come from, compassion and pity are two very different things.
Pity is when you feel bad for someone else, but do it with slight contempt. Compassion is when you feel bad for someone else, but because you recognize they're a complex individual, that probably has some value as a person, and the part of you that just generally cares about other people pipes up and makes you see something of yourself inside them and something of them inside you.
Admittedly, it's not something my people are great at, in general, but I'm not really like the rest of my people.
But you go ahead and keep on misinterpreting every single thing I say in an attempt to scare me away from trying to be friendly at you if it makes you feel more at ease.
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Pity is when you feel bad for someone else, but do it with slight contempt. Compassion is when you feel bad for someone else, but because you recognize they're a complex individual, that probably has some value as a person, and the part of you that just generally cares about other people pipes up and makes you see something of yourself inside them and something of them inside you.
Admittedly, it's not something my people are great at, in general, but I'm not really like the rest of my people.
But you go ahead and keep on misinterpreting every single thing I say in an attempt to scare me away from trying to be friendly at you if it makes you feel more at ease.