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2 min readOct 2, 2020

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I actually agree with you over all the commentary about compassion rather than most of the comments calling for compassion. My daughter and I we’re watching the news last night when the story broke. My response was to say to her, “He’ll be okay. He can just get his doctor to give him another round of hydroxy chloroquine. Or maybe this time try some a round of that Oleandrin treatment promoted by Mike Lindell.”

I’m not uncompassionate. I just realize that my emotional capacity for things like compassion is finite. I don’t have an exhaustive supply. So at some point, choices must be made. I choose to grant my compassion to the scores of people who were either his direct victims or suffered unfair consequences to his vice and folly, not to mention his criminal activity and public malfeasance. I don’t have to know their names or see them on TV. Their pain is real and deserves so much more compassion from all of us than Donald Trump ever will.

Biblically, we are admonished to not throw our pearls before swine lest they be trampled. If compassion is one of the pearls of humanity, make no mistake that Donald Trump is the swine in that analogy.

Any ounce of compassion shown to him will be gluttonly consumed with avarice in his heart and weaponized against you. Because that’s what sociopaths do. Compassion will not redeem him. It is foolish to think otherwise.

People, don’t throw your pearls, the most precious bits of your humanity, before swine—those who promote or overindulge themselves in acts of stubbornness, selfishness, filth, gluttony, and greed. They are the unclean and will fall to deadly sin.

Don’t forget or let yourself be confused by who and what gets trampled in that scenario.

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