Compassion through social strife

[Sacred Fool]

I think there's a bit of confusion over nomenclature. When, say, the Buddhists use the term compassion, they mean it as something above personal attraction or cultural programming. Yet, someone else may use that term to refer to a state of caring, but where there is a hard division separating self from other-self.

Because it's just a simple, innocent little word not trying to hurt anybody, one may need to simply apply some introspective effort to define one's intended meaning.