Most compassionate person ever?

[St Leo]

Douglas Noel Adams

[TheStinger]

What has the Dalia Llama done to be the most compassioante person ever. Mother Terressa was a religious bigot who insited on conversion before she helped people.

The founder of the JESUITS right ok.

Jesus appears to have been a sound guy, and Ghandi did alot of good stuff. But the atual answer is almost certainly someone we have never heard of

[monolith94]

"I wonder if people can guess who I'll say."
It's Bill Gates??? Damn, I was going to say David Duchovny! I don't know why.

I'd say Steve Jobs and the Woz are very compassionate for giving us and devloping an alternate OS to use so we aren't stuck with windows. Same goes for Linus Torvalds.

[Richelieu]

Mr. Rogers

[Seeker]

OK: Most 'compassionate' could be anyone. My crazed bus driver might be the 'most compassionate'.

It's what people actually DO to reduce suffering.

But at the same time these individuals have a phil framework of individualism and rights and inspiration.

Tolstoy dedicated his life to the Russian people, and provided an example of service and non-violence.

Bentham and Mill championed the rights of the individual and the downtrodden.

Many scientists have created techniques, cures, or processes that have helped lessen the suffering of millions.

I chose Bethune over, say, Pasteur or the polio dude because Bethune was actually out there, side by side with the young soldiers of many different nations, suffering with them. His techniques were worked out on the battlefield, and he took no personal profit from them (with the exception of the device he patented for dealing with punctured, collapsed lungs). And they were highly effective: there is a marked difference between armies with blood transfusion and without, and that difference is much less casualties from treatable wounds. Bethune's work meant that men no longer (necessarily) had to stand by and watch friends die from blood loss.

I can't think of any relgious figure who I would consider 'most compassionate' in the sense of actually doing anything.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Mother Teresa, I don't think I have explain why .

This guy might ask you to explain:

http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/hitchens_16_4.html

Jesus? Well, if he existed, I don't think I could call him the most compassionate. The Canaanite woman wasn't treated all that compassionately, neither were the sheep he sent to their deaths in the lake. And then there's that whole condemning folks to hell who don't believe in him thing...

I think Jimmy Carter was one of the most compassionate people to ever lead a country, although he was rather dismal at doing so. I think Lincoln was pretty compassionate too, though he was by no means perfect either.

I'll just say Bartholomew de las Casas and leave it at that.

[MRT144]

Originally posted by monolith94
"I wonder if people can guess who I'll say."
It's Bill Gates??? Damn, I was going to say David Duchovny! I don't know why.

I'd say Steve Jobs and the Woz are very compassionate for giving us and devloping an alternate OS to use so we aren't stuck with windows. Same goes for Linus Torvalds.

**** jobs. he ran the mac clones out of business. thats not compassionate at all.

[GePap]

Rufus:

Bend to the will of Saint Ignatius the compassionate..OR ELSE