You see tho cardiff, its not a simple draw a line in the sand. taking your view to the extreme as well, you shouldn't be using electricity in your home as there are people who don't have electricity. Or you shouldn't use the internet as half the planet cant. Or give up on health and dental care? Perhaps living in a small village growing your own food, living in a grass hut? Thats how 1/3 of the worlds population mostly lives. Is it uncompassionate to live better than 2 billion people on the globe?
There is no black and white in this area, it is all shades of grey in the middle. How much of your income goes to what a Sudanese refugee would consider luxury items? I'm willing to guess pretty close to 100%. So we each have to decide in ourselves where that line is, and how much of our own efforts we want to go to others. I regularly donate blood, as its something i can do to help out the community, it is a rather local effect tho.
Saying someone isn't compassionate because they'd rather spend what they earned through their own efforts on luxuries for themselves rather than spending it on others isn't entirely accurate. Is what taxes get used to fund government programs a part of compassion? Is spending the money I make on consumer goods compassionite as it helps create jobs, particularly restaurants and other service type spending?
