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When it comes to homelessness, what we call 'compassion fatigue' is something else entirely
- February 14, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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The 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil once said that compassion was an impossibility. She said it is "a more astounding miracle than walking on water." The word she used for meeting the needs of the sufferer is not love or charity, but justice. Today, there is plenty of research that points to a decline in compassion.
Originally published at Phys.org