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To: koan who wrote (48070)	3/4/2014 12:30:15 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

You still have not accounted for compassion from within the Atheistic World-View. "I value it. It is how I establish my validity as a human being." As I said your personal feelings do not provide a sufficient philosophical grounding to oblige anyone else to act in a similar fashion or to condemn anyone who fails to be compassionate. You're just describing a common phenomena. "That is where my compassion comes from. I feel for other beings. I put myself in their shoes, so to speak.We were much more barbaric before we became civilized.I am sure empathy, kindness and compassion is a concept all sentient beings in the universe understand. It is, IMO, a constant in the universe intelligent beings understand and value. If we were visited by sentient beings I am sure they would judge us on our ability to understand compassion." So you would judge other peoples behavior based on whether or not they were compassionate?