Why do so many humans struggle with the concept of compassion?

[Dtris]

People who are not negatively polarized, who sometimes believe themselves to be religious or constructive members of society, seem to still struggle with the concept of compassion for other-selves.

They dislike a large range of people: the poor, immigrants, other race groups, people who identify as LGBTIQ+, the elderly... the list could go on and on. And of course the other major group is women- we seem to not be liked as a group by a lot of men and even some other women.

It seems like it's really difficult for some humans to consider that other-selves are as worthy of thought or respect. Even though we have some voices on this planet that are loudly and proudly shouting that compassion is important, learning about and assisting other-selves is important, we still have such a large group of people blissfully unaware that compassion is real thing.

I sense a distinct political bias in your post. I have the opposite bias, and can assure you, that those beliefs you believe the other side have are not nearly as often true as you might think. It is politically expedient to paint one side as not compassionate in various ways. We create our reality thru our beliefs. If you believe other people are all these evil things because they lack compassion, then you will never be able to see from their eyes and understand the real reasons people believe certain things. You may still disagree after seeing from their eyes, that is fine.

I already argued this with Unity, but compassion when taken as the highest virtue is easily led to ideology which is less than helpful to put it mildly. Compassion has to be tempered with respect for free will and individual responsibility. When someone who holds compassion as one of if not the highest ideal confronts someone who holds individual freedom as the highest ideal, it can often lead the one who believes in compassion to believe the other does not, and vice versa.

As Ra says "The third discipline of the mind is a repetition of the first but with the gaze outward towards the fellow entities that it meets. In each entity there exists completeness. Thus, the ability to understand each balance is necessary. When you view patience, you are responsible for mirroring in your mental understanding, patience/impatience. When you view impatience, it is necessary for your mental configuration of understanding to be impatience/patience. We use this as a simple example. Most configurations of mind have many facets, and understanding of either self polarities, or what you would call other-self polarities, can and must be understood as subtle work."