Compassion - Part Four

Do you associate civility with compassionate civic engagement?

Do you associate genuine compassion with a sensitive awareness of suffering and a well-informed desire to contribute towards its alleviation?

Are you capable of distinguishing clearly between genuine compassion and fake compassion?

You may or may not be aware that fake compassion is one of the most offensive forms of incivility.  Its perpetrators pretend to be caring when they are actually cruel.  They use deception to dupe people into admiring them.

How genuine is your compassion?

How do you tell whether individual actions and collective actions are genuinely compassionate or fake?