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.
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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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Replying to @RightPraetorian
If anything is obvious now, it’s that that kind of thinking isn’t working.

Oct 16, 2020 · 12:17 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
Respectfully, that’s incorrect. The problems in public policy arise when politicians try use compassion and mercy to solve problems that apply to different people. This patriarchal “government knows best” approach always fails because the government sucks at almost everything