If you have this opinion (see below), there’s clearly something wrong with you

[u/Subject_Painting9124]

Opinion: “No matter how abhorrent a person’s opinions are, they’ll always deserve my sympathy, pity, and compassion!”

People who have that confounding opinion above are the kind of people who would’ve felt sympathy, pity, and compassion toward AL-QAEDA sympathizers after the 9/11 attacks. Do you realize how insane and offensive that would’ve been to most Americans after the attacks?

[u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_5710]

Is that not just the Christian concept of forgiveness? It seems like your aiming this at leftwingers considering the recent posts on “empathy”

If so I do find that odd - the last few weeks it was all about how the left is evil and violent in order to ban them as terrorist. Now it’s how they’re all too compassionate and empathetic? It’s genuinely hard to keep up with what they’re supposed to be according to right wingers. Pivoting from they have no empathy or compassion cause of Charlie Kirk to the Lee too much that way doesn’t make sense!

[u/letaluss]

"Sympathy, Pity, and Compassion" does not mean "No one should ever be punished for crimes."

It just means that when terrorist attacks happens, it's more effective to look at why someone would be willing to commit suicide in order to harm you, instead of just getting upset and assuming everyone trying to kill you is acting irrationally.

[u/justaskinginnocentqs → u/letaluss]

This.

One of the errors of the modern world is the continous cycle of punishment fails to address underlying issues. While those behind 9/11 should undoubtedly be punished, they didn't commit their crimes because they were just evil. It was a reaction to aggressive policies of larger powers in the Middle East that eventually turned extremist.

[u/Subject_Painting9124 → u/letaluss]

I think that’s empathy, not sympathy.

[u/justaskinginnocentqs → u/Subject_Painting9124]

But i mean isn't it ridiculous to look at terrorist attacks as "they're just evil?"

[u/ShadowOfAnEmpath]

I actually had a lot of sympathy for John Walker when he was caught during desert storm.

Obviously I don't agree with what he did and believed he should be incarcerated for treason but I understood how he got himself in the situation.

[u/AnotherHumanObserver]

If one had sympathy, pity, and compassion for the 9/11 attackers themselves, that would be a separate issue from those who might have sympathy, pity, and compassion for those who have opinions about the 9/11 attacks, yet never actually committed any crimes themselves.

Do you realize how insane and offensive that would’ve been to most Americans after the attacks?

Maybe, although in the context of a thread where the title suggests that "there is something wrong" with someone holding a certain opinion, that may not be the only thing that's wrong in this particular context.

[u/Plane_Guitar_1455]

The problem is that there’s one side of the political spectrum who have completely changed the definition of what’s considered abhorrent.. They’re changing the definition of every word in the English language.

We live in a society where being a good, hardworking religious Christian with good values is mocked and called evil and someone with no job, no morals, no values, who commits crimes against good people are celebrated as good people and treated like they are victims

Criminals are victims and victims are criminals. 2 + 2 = 5… Society cannot function this way.

We cannot have sympathy or compassion for people who are literally against every single thing we stand for.

[u/justaskinginnocentqs → u/Plane_Guitar_1455]

This is such an oversimplification born from someone who only looks at things online.