Must we simply recognize that we are more competitive than compassionate, and try to make the best of it with a ‘healthy dose of skepticism’?  Is the best advice we can give each other that we should try to live in such a way that we hurt each other as little as possible?  Is our greatest ideal a maximum of satisfaction with a minimum of pain?

• To understand the place of compassion in our lives, in what “radically different direction” do you need to look?
• What would your service site look like if it were based on the ethic of compassion?
• What would DePaul University look like if it were based on the ethic of compassion?
• What would the world look like if it were ruled by compassion?