Yes. Does that mean that we should have no compassion for the person who falls into addiction? Especially when a teen? Or for their families?
Cause that is the attitude of smug superiority that I was speaking out against.
i read a fascinating article on Twitter yesterday, about a neuroscientist who discovered that his brain pattern was that of a psychopath. i am going to try to find it and link it. he wrote a book about life as a non-violent psychopath, and analyzed himself, basically.
Just explained some in my last post. I respond to scenes and do the CPR....I definitely have compassion. It breaks your heart to see a perfectly healthy, young man dead from illegal drugs. The family is devastated, the crew goes home saddened. It’s hard to shake these things, but there is sympathy, anger, frustration, despair....all the normal feelings of grief, even when you don’t know them. This one was a neighbor, just around the corner from me. Heartbreaking.
They forget, there but for the grace of God go I. We are all vulnerable and should always have compassion, even when it is difficult. We have been called to do that.