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Originally Posted by OBW
Ohio is right.
Of course, your statement is also right. But the reason you make it is the problem.
Actually, compassion is not exclusively Christian. But the Christian should be compassionate while there is no such requirement on others. The fact that even Christians fail at it is proof that we are not fully sanctified. We are on the path — not yet in the New J.
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I think Harold's argument about the golden rule implies that it is a cross cultural standard. As such it points to the possibility of compassion as a universal ethic. That would mean that it is a requirement on others as well as Christians.