Compassion Without Logic is Toxic

Compassion without logic is toxic.

Unbounded virtue always leads to a poisoning of the system.

Compassion cannot scale, because when applied as policy it loses the property that defines it; a deep, instinctive understanding and emotional connection to those known closely.

Compassion is a superficial platitude when used at scale. A term used by those incapable of deeper rational engagement. A way to avoid the cognition necessary for comprehending how mechanisms produce outcomes.

The modern obsession with making everything compassionate is proving to be an abject failure.

Those who are good at local compassion should remain local. Those capable of scaled rationality, strategy, ingenuity and structural imagination should operate at scale.

Demonizing emotional detachment is simply the outward expression of incomprehension, found in those who are incapable of building solutions, but who have been given cultural leverage for performative and unmerited reasons.