Pizzey's Perch

“Com­pas­sion”, the 19^th cen­tu­ry Pol­ish philoso­pher Arthur Schopen­hauer wrote, “ is the basis of morality.”
In a world sore­ly in need of copi­ous amounts of it, com­pas­sion is both high­ly selec­tive and hostage to a short atten­tion span on the part of the pub­lic and the news media, the inevitable con­se­quences of the way news is disseminated. … Read the rest