Originally Posted by
anvilhead 
compassion: a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
Okay so then what's pity... I dont have a strong desire to take the suffering away. I have the first part of the definition.
A lot of you seem very invested in proving to me? yourselves? that your analysis of me is right.
How about reading what I am writing and taking what I am saying at face value?
Is that a problem for some reason?