Societal Compassion

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This paper explains that Rousseau's "Discourse on Inequality" states that the problem with humans is that they are good innately but, as they grow into society, they acquire bad traits. The author points out that the charitable response to the terrible tsunami was made possible by the speed of the internet and it ability to reach around the globe. The paper states that families of America need stronger spiritual and moral leadership in order to be able to instill practical values of compassion and caring in their children, who are showing signs of being disenfranchised from traditional middle class values and of pursuing pure hedonism.

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Introduction
Examples of Compassion in Contemporary Events
Compassion towards Tsunami Victims through Creative Fund-raising
Changes in the USA so Compassion Flows without Impediment

From the Paper:

"First, a brief look at Rousseau's writing, as background: In the very first sentence of his "Discourse on Inequality" (DOI) Rousseau spells out that part of his approach to the problem will be to "try to combine right sanctions" so that "justice and utility in no case may be divided." Justice, we can assume, in this case, is a word used in describing the "compassion" that drives humans. "Utility" is the practical realities of the human condition, we must assume."

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