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Originally Posted by Berean
I'm trying to figure out if the self congratulations and laudatory comments from the easily impressed are just attempts at shallow self indulgence, or something substantial that will matter in eternity.
Does compassion end when the ambulance leaves, or does the hard work of self sacrifice begin?
Let us not insult the poor and downtrodden with delusions of compassion that are nothing more than telephone calls.
When you've invested your time and money into this man's life, then you can tell us how you've saved him.
Until then, all you've done is give him another day to wander the streets in quiet desperation.
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1. You are reading WAY too much into this thread.
2. The OP did something that i'm sure hundreds of people saw and just drove by not thinking twice.
3. Are you suggesting that for every person you try and help, you should spend the rest of your life, or theirs, watching over that person?
4. Compassion STARTED when the OP decided to stop with his daily life to help another human being. Something not a whole lot of people have for other people they don't know.
5. Just because the man might have been homeless, doesn't mean he doesn't live for something, or someone.