Essay: Thoughts on “Compassion Fatigue”
Over the years I have often read or heard about a so-called personal or societal syndrome termed as compassion fatigue . While wondering to myself about whether it were actually a thing or merely something used as an excuse or convenient rationalization by society to help explain away why people or a society cease caring as well as doing something meaningful on behalf of those most in need and, on a personal or societal level, who are otherwise deliberately indifferent to the plight and needs of others, it came to mind about how in reality there are actually different types of compassion, empathy and love that people or a society might exercise when it comes to others. There is the unconditional variety and then there is the conditional or contractual variety. The former has few if any limits imposed other than what a person or society might selectively set for themselves or itself under the category of setting personal or societal boundaries . The latter has certain expect...