Comments on: The Virtues: Be Compassionate http://www.daylightatheism.org/2007/01/be-compassionate.html NIGHTTIME IS FOR DREAMING. DAYLIGHT IS FOR ACTION. Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:35:33 +0000 By: Ken Batts http://www.daylightatheism.org/2007/01/be-compassionate.html#comment-38221 Ken Batts Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:09:57 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2007/01/be-compassionate.html#comment-38221 Excellent essay and site. I put a link to your compassion essay on my website. Good work. Excellent essay and site. I put a link to your compassion essay on my website. Good work.

]]> By: Roopster http://www.daylightatheism.org/2007/01/be-compassionate.html#comment-12836 Roopster Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:31:29 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2007/01/be-compassionate.html#comment-12836 I recently discovered this blog. I've had a similiar idea to your rewriting the ten commandments for some time now. A few weeks ago, I started the project on <a href="http://aguide.wikispaces.com" rel="nofollow">http://aguide.wikispaces.com</a>. Please feel free to participate in this (if you wish) since it's a wiki and anyone can edit. If not, please let me know your policies for quoting some of your writings. - Thanks, Paul. I recently discovered this blog. I've had a similiar idea to your rewriting the ten commandments for some time now. A few weeks ago, I started the project on http://aguide.wikispaces.com. Please feel free to participate in this (if you wish) since it's a wiki and anyone can edit. If not, please let me know your policies for quoting some of your writings. - Thanks, Paul.

]]> By: Alex Weaver http://www.daylightatheism.org/2007/01/be-compassionate.html#comment-12804 Alex Weaver Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:47:33 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2007/01/be-compassionate.html#comment-12804 The date of this post is an ironic coincidence, since I was up until about 0430 last night (and then had to drive back to Sacramento, ack) reconciling with a close friend whom my actions had cruelly affected, in an unintentional but inexcusable fashion. I could have just let the matter go and try to move on, but I felt it was important to A) take responsibility for the mistakes I'd made and find a way to atone and B) be done with the matter. Fortunately I am apparently forgiven but likely to be ribbed about a particular point of the issue approximately forever. The date of this post is an ironic coincidence, since I was up until about 0430 last night (and then had to drive back to Sacramento, ack) reconciling with a close friend whom my actions had cruelly affected, in an unintentional but inexcusable fashion. I could have just let the matter go and try to move on, but I felt it was important to A) take responsibility for the mistakes I'd made and find a way to atone and B) be done with the matter. Fortunately I am apparently forgiven but likely to be ribbed about a particular point of the issue approximately forever.

]]> By: schemanista http://www.daylightatheism.org/2007/01/be-compassionate.html#comment-12790 schemanista Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:49:52 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2007/01/be-compassionate.html#comment-12790 Good post, Adam. As the folks on the Naturalism Philosophy forum will attest, this kind of compassion gets a lot easier to enact when one abandons contra-causal free will. Recognizing that accountability but not ultimate responsibility attaches to our actions is a difficult conceptual shift, given what Owen Flanagan calls the "manifest image". It's necessary, however, if we're to move beyond retributive approaches to justice. If you're not familiar with them, the resources at www.naturalism.org, particularly <a href="http://www.naturalism.org/criminal.htm#AgainstRetribution" rel="nofollow">this essay</a> support your views nicely. Good post, Adam. As the folks on the Naturalism Philosophy forum will attest, this kind of compassion gets a lot easier to enact when one abandons contra-causal free will. Recognizing that accountability but not ultimate responsibility attaches to our actions is a difficult conceptual shift, given what Owen Flanagan calls the "manifest image". It's necessary, however, if we're to move beyond retributive approaches to justice.

If you're not familiar with them, the resources at http://www.naturalism.org, particularly this essay support your views nicely.

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