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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
I've been saying that compassion is a form of narcissism because we're projecting our own identity onto others in order to understand how they feel.
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Interesting, might need to digest this for a bit before I comment.
The charity relationship is an interesting dynamic. I mean commercial charities just exploit guilt memes to milk people for the 2% cut that actually gets where it's supposed to, but in more personal charity relationships the giver seems to cast themselves as some benevolent dick.