The Danger of Empowering Compassion to the Ultimate Virtue

Russell Brand: I think people would say that authority and power have been imposing conditions in more diffuse ways for a lot longer. What I feel like is we all refocus our attention on the real giants the oligarchs the tyrants whether they're bureaucratic or personal, he says. The danger of elevating compassion to the ultimate virtue because you will also enable the narcissists of compassion to garner power to themselves by claiming a compassion they don't have according to Brand. He said if green leftists starve the poor to save the planet they'll starve the poor so that makes me wonder well is your goal to save thePlanet which by the way is a very difficult thing to do or is your goal