The defining idea here is "hate the sin, love the sinner", a wonderfully compassionate concept in itself, but oh, how over the years it has come a cropper inside a secretive, hierarchical, all-male, establishment.
For this was a bold and much-needed attempt to reclaim compassionate conservatism, a concept that has been battered by five years of austerity government.
"We approach these challenges with compassionate conservatism, a concept that is as old as the pioneers heading west in wagon trains, in which everyone had responsibility to follow the rules, but no one would be left behind," the platform says.
DeJoria and his cofounder Jonathan Kendrick are dubbing the concept "compassionate capitalism". "We don't want to segregate a whole economic group," DeJoria recently told Forbes.
Some people will hear that word and immediately think of concepts like compassionate, healthy, delicious, and ecological, while others will think of concepts like weird, unhealthy, boring, and un-American.
Isn't the concept of compassionate detachment oxymoronic? Henry may give selflessly to others, but when they demand too much, he pulls the rug out.
The simple fact is the Tories did not win the last election outright, because the concept of compassionate conservatism failed to convince enough voters.
Kneebone believes passionately that disaster can only be avoided by a change in mindset: "It is utterly central and vital that people change the way they think about the relationship between the clinician and the patient, and the concept of compassionate care.
In my original essay, I also talk about the concept of Compassionate Capitalism, the alternative to Naomi Klein's well-researched work on the kind of capitalism we have today.
A common theme that CSA survivors used to exemplify the concept of compassionate care was holistic care, which balances physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health (table 1).
Their brief is to complicate the sentimental associations of care giving by suggesting its less altruistic dimensions: the narcissistic self-care promoted by the beauty industry; the political agenda of concepts like "compassionate conservatism".
