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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Yes!
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The elites are going to circle the wagons and hide as much as they can because they like to think they are popular but reality contradicts that. Look forward to an administration even less transparent than Obama’s.
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#BigTruth 💖🕊️ marianne2020.com/
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Part of being compassionate entails caring about not just what *sounds* good, but what actually *works*. And for that, you need basic economics. The fact that things like rent control still exist is depressing. mises.org/economics-beginner…
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Can we get an Amen to that!?
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Amen! It seems painfully obvious that values like trust, love, and cooperation are evolutionarily superior to their alternatives. Our survival literally depends on it.
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This reminds me of the concept of “self-interest” *accurately* understood. Community and other-mindedness IS ALSO part of, and benefits, “self-interest.”
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Some people have no compassion or mercy. ..there's not enough profit in it for them
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Technology hasn't stopped evolving yet. ...nor have we
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