Compassion with Conditions What exactly is compassion? Is compassion valid only when it is directed toward humans? Can kindness toward animals suddenly become a legal offense? Is morality to be measured by empathy, or by the selective convenience of law? And how did a civilization that worships cows, elephants, snakes, and monkeys arrive at a legal framework that sometimes treats feeding a hungry dog as a punishable act? https://www.boloji.com/articles/55302/compassion-with-conditions