Boundaries of Compassion

by Manfred Clynes

I) A German Journey
II) Prolegomena for a Systems Answer

Compassion Set

The gift of compassion bears its blind spot

Life means death for some

Be it even microbes.

Thus Nature says.

Compassion's blind spot

May not disappear,

But it may become smaller

- and smaller.

Thus: we become

Make that blind spot large:

Then we are worse

Than beasts