Death and taking life from a living creature

[osgart]

Life necessitates accountability, as do our laws. Compassion and accountability are not mutually inclusive, which is to suggest that too much compassion and there is too little accountability for that which you claim to be immoral. On the same premise, too much accountability or too severe a penalty and we end up with too little compassion. We are aiming for balance, and it is in balance that morality becomes true or untrue, a correct understanding or a wished upon whim of preference.

I am compassionate towards people I value as deserving such compassion. Being blindly compassionate would wear me out or put a drain on my life, energy and accountability. I otherwise don't have to be involved with people I have compassion for. I can think of people I have compassion for that I'm actually not as easy going with them. I don't think that compassion and accountability have an inverse relationship. I think people can be very disciplinary with their compassion. It all depends on what is deserved or not deserved.