Compassion is for the weak? It is weakling mentality and a weakling morality?

Compassion for the weak?

So I think we might have been Jesus who taught us to have compassion and stuff. Yet, my curiosity; how much of this is out of strength versus out of weakness?

So for example, if you understand Christianity, Lauren did Christianity, and we don’t have some sort of silly fear of heaven or hell or whatever, and we only believe in this life this reality, kind of like what Jesus said, the kingdom of God is already within you, like a child, Then if this were the case, how should we proceed in life?

Morality?

So we are often taught that we should pity the week, have compassion for them etc. Yet, I’m uncertain how much of this is good vs bad.

For example, I think a modern day times, in America, and according to Christian morality, compassion for the week the sad unfortunate is considered a virtue. Yet I think the problem with compassion is that it is toxic.

For example, imagine if you spend all day, looking at tragedy porn on Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube podcast, Spotify, email Gmail, your text messages, your email newsletters, television blogs news etc. If this is the case, certainly it will affect you.

For example, I’ll give you an example; I accidentally stumbled upon the Twitter of Elon Musk, in which he retreated the Joe Rogan interview with Donald Trump, and also retreated something with Donald Trump showing some video, a real tragedy, the story of a young mother whose daughter, a 12-year-old girl was essentially raped and murdered at a local playground, by two gang affiliated violent members who either illegally cross the border, or somehow was granted admission legally?

Now I’m sure there’s more to the story, but regardless it is an extreme tragedy. Now that I have a young son, I don’t have a daughter, at least not yet, but still, thinking about the tragedy of the mother, the kid the whole situation… I actually put me in a really Sad and kind of troubled mood the last day day and a half, I think it even affected my sleep? Just this one video. And this one heart wrenching video that the mom said.

Now imagine that the average American, watches and consume media like this thoroughly like 5000 times a day. Certainly is going to mess up their minds.

So the first thing we have to do is we have to stop this fear and tragedy porn. I don’t think there’s any virtuous thing to it; it doesn’t really help anybody. Sure it might affect your voting behavior, but once you have your voting done, then what?

What does it mean to change the world?

So I think the big thing is start with yourself, your family. Your wife, your kids, your mom, your sister, your siblings, and your friends. 

I think the hard thing is everyone’s trying to change the world from too much of a macro economic, a world perspective. But this is not real, nor is it practical;

First, what is “the world”? It isn’t really anything, it is not tangible.

I think we end up falling victim to this virtuous cycle of misery; we hear miserable news around the world, which attracts more clicks views retweets, which is good for Google Google ad revenue, and I guess now Twitter/X.

The world is a tricky and messy place, and also a very very evil and bad place. I was actually thinking about it, this really really tragic 12 year-old girl getting killed murdered and raped by two super evil people, who I think should deserve the death sentence at least. But still, How much of this happens all around the world, every single day, to all 8 billion people on the planet? In Thailand, Cambodia Laos, Vietnam, Asia Southeast Asia, China, the areas in which mainland China has annexed and committed countless genocides, Israeli genocide, etc. All the poor Lebanese who either got killed maimed or displaced. Same with the people in Gaza or the innocent Palestinians.

Anyways, all around the planet, so let us assume that there are 8 billion people on the planet. Probabilistically, there are probably at least dozens, if not hundreds, if not thousands, if not tens of thousands, if not millions of evils and injustices committed every single day, whether that be rape and death of 12-year-old girls, children etc.

But I suppose my question is, besides knowledge, what should one do about it? Like are you going to send Lee quit your job, volunteer for the peace corps, and then dedicate your life to helping poor families and children and victims? I almost feel like it might be better to volunteer for the local YMCA, the local boys and girls club, become a big brother or sister, or even help out at your local Boy Scout troop, even coach sports etc. I know for myself personally speaking, what kind of kept me off the streets, kept me from joining gangs, doing gang activity, I actually even remember an incident in middle school in which one of the guys I knew,  one of my adjacent friends, told me how some other guy was trying to punk on him, and he called up all the guys in the area this might have been maybe the seventh or eighth grade, I think we are like 12 or 13 years old, and the idea was to just grab the biggest kitchen knife you had, to wrap it with a towel, hide it in your backpack, and use it if shit hit the fan with the other rival gang.

Anyways, Once again, really really ugly stuff. 

Gangs

Once again, gangs, gang in initiations, especially in Los Angeles, East Los Angeles I hear is really really horrible gruesome and terrible.

But once again, what can you actually do what should you do, what is superficial what is real?