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Trisha the Severe Hottie
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Tolerance
Compassion

I'm trying to figure out if they really occupy different slots.
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AvidReader
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To me at least, compassion involves empathy while tolerance does not. If I am moved to help by what I've seen, I have compassion. If I put up with something becuase it's not worth fighting about, I'm tolerating it.

*Waits for a Grammer Commie to wander by so I can see how I did.*
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punwit
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I'd have to agree with AR, compassion denotes a connectedness and a sense of empathy whereas tolerance implies simply putting up with.
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ae
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Tolerance
Compassion

The difference seems clear enough to me.

[ December 24, 2004, 10:25 AM: Message edited by: ae ]
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