It also takes having
compassion for the humans suffering through it.
Not exact matches
With regard to others, it is our duty to cultivate within ourselves respect
for the sacred and to show the face of the revealed God — the God who has
compassion for the poor and the weak,
for widows and orphans,
for the foreigner; the God who is so
human that he himself became man, a man who
suffered, and who by his
suffering with us gave dignity and hope to our pain.
Riding the publicity wave of Brittany Maynard, a young woman who
suffered much and became the
human face of the death - with - dignity movement, they have redefined
compassion as respect
for a patient's autonomous determination of the time, location, and method of death.
Modern psychiatry, in league with Big Pharma, has devolved almost purely into prescribing medication
for pseudo-medical illness, giving pills instead of
compassion, and thus trivializing
human suffering.
The age of accountability is a concept born from the
compassion of the
human heart, from a deep and intrinsic sense that a loving, good, and just God would not condemn little children or the mentally handicapped to such
suffering when they could certainly bear no responsibility
for their faith.
As
human beings and communities apprehend the presence of divine
compassion for them and with them, they experience power to resist the degrading effects of
suffering, to defy structures and policies that institutionalize injustice, and to confront their own guilt... the
compassion of God empowers.
Geographical distance does not dismiss us from
human compassion for those who are
suffering.
If I interpret the prospectus of the CMC correctly, the objective of the CMC namely to «impart to men and women an education of the highest order in the art and science of medicine and to equip them in the spirit of Christ
for service In the relief of
suffering and promotion of health», that is, the idea of a combination of training in professional skills, moulding the technically trained in a culture of
human values and motivation, equipping them to utilize technology to serve «with
compassion and concern
for the whole person», the people especially the weaker sections of society, and giving spiritual reinforcement of that culture by the «spirit of Christ» and the motto «Not to be Ministered unto but to Minister» derived from him, goes back in tradition to the founder herself (Prospectus MBBS Course p. 5).
It is sometimes suggested that animal
suffering is
for the sake of calling forth
human compassion.
Berrigan's complaint, in short, is that the reestablishment of a Jewish state (a justifiable goal) has come at a tremendous cost in
human suffering, armed violence and moral decay; that the course of the new state has been a betrayal of everything the term «Israel» has stood
for — justice,
compassion, succoring the humiliated and injured; that a «settler state» was established through the expropriation of the people of the land, followed by an imperialist venture, based on the subjugation and exploitation of the conquered; and that, to add moral insult to physical and spiritual injury, the spokesmen of and
for the state claim
for it a special virtue and glorious achievement which may not be criticized.
By concentrating on the physical toll of Joan's psychological ordeal, Dreyer translates the unattainable and resolute piety of Joan the saint into the accessible language of
compassion for the pain and
suffering of Joan the
human, achieving a coexistent and symbiotic relationship between the metaphysical and the corporeal that Dreyer defines as realized mysticism.
Any action that claims to be in the name of furthering animal protection but which results, directly or indirectly, in real or threatened
suffering, pain, and / or taking of
human or animal life is totally antithetical to this ethic of
compassion that guides our actions
for a more humane world.
«I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in
compassion to the
human race;
for if we
suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?»
They take existing game conventions such as the turn based strategy or the manager sim and deconstruct them to highlight the complicity of the player in a predatory role, while above all showing
compassion for the collateral
human suffering.
However,
compassion meditation did not reduce activity
for images of
human suffering, suggesting that the
compassion meditation increased a person's responsiveness to
suffering.