The Moral Compass of Compassion

Our caring is either biased or unbiased. We may say that we care, but at what level? Do we care about the things we like, and not care about the things we don’t like? Do we care about the whole picture, and what led up to someone’s problem?

We have to understand in order to care;
for that, we need to have the ability to understand.

How do we understand?
Well, we can’t just say, “I understand”.

For compassion – for that is what caring is – we need a moral compass, a sense of the right direction. We need to know what goodness is. Goodness is clear seeing, without judgemental bias. Only then do we have the inner knowledge of what is needed, as opposed to what we want.

Caring: of Germanic origin; chara ‘grief, lament’, charon ‘grieve’,