"What the government's decision today means is that a group of vulnerable men, women and children will not be sent back to their persecutors in Sri Lanka and I want to take a moment to thank the minister and the prime minister for showing some compassion to these people," said George Newhouse, a lawyer who brought the case.
They may lack empathy and compassion, but that doesn't mean they are all that different from the rest of us in other respects – and that we can't learn from them, both in terms of what they're doing right, and what they're getting wrong.
Compassion for animals in laboratories is not "sentimentality"; it goes hand-in-hand with compassion for humans, both of which would be served by leaving cruel and demonstrably unnecessary monkey experiments behind in favour of truly humane and human-relevant science.
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Prospective students need to show compassion and motivation, she says: "When people are in pain it's not easy to get them moving.
"In an earlier era, our assumptions and vocabulary might have expressed judgment instead of compassion, and closed doors instead of opening them," he said.
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Macklemore said of the song: "It is a message of equality, tolerance and compassion to end homophobia, fear and hatred that has been an institution here in America.
She is 45m tall, winged, made of aluminium, and if you see her face close up – impossible unless you climb inside her, which I've done – she looks as if the Latin word misericordia (compassion) was invented for her.
You'd feel a great wave of compassion for this total stranger, and still be listening sympathetically 20 minutes later.
And they are driven not by romantic love, but by compassion.
