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How does compassion differ from pity?
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February 16th, 2009
It seems to me that compassion is the more positve term. Can you feel pity for someone and also look down on them? The word pitiful seems a bit tricky. It seems to me that if I say someone or something is pitiful, I am saying that pity may be elicited but not necessarily by me. Does compassion imply a wish to relieve someone’s suffering? What about pity?
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