If compassion & mercy should guide our personal lives, then compassion and mercy should guide public policy too. This isn’t a lack of intelligent perspective on how we should collectively behave; it’s the intelligence of the ages & the only survivable option for the 21st-century.

Oct 16, 2020 · 12:12 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
The only way that happens is through subsidiarity.
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What the heck is that?
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No, compassion and mercy are for personal relationships. Public policy involves a complex web of millions of unique individuals. What is compassionate and merciful to one person or group may be extremely insulting or harmful to another person or group.
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If anything is obvious now, it’s that that kind of thinking isn’t working.
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Compassion and mercy by the State means it will force generosity from its subjects to fund that compassion and mercy. Coercing anyone to do anything is the opposite of compassion and mercy.
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No it doesn’t.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
You competed in the Democrat primary. Question - Did you notice a lot of compassion and mercy coming from the left?
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No side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on either kindness or mean-spiritedness. There are saints and jerks everywhere.
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“American public policy both domestically and internationally has become systematically and systemically divergent from the consciousness and the will of the American people.” Marianne Williamson
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Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said aggression would be the downfall of civilization—he also said empathy is the course correction. Normalize feelings not fighting. Normalize love not hate. Normalize reality not reality tv.
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