Roxana RobinsonThinkers

Compassion is contrasted with sentimentality in that while sentimentality is superficial and does nothing to expand our understanding, compassion is risky and exigent and puts one inside of someone else.

Sentimentality is contrasted with compassion in that while compassion is risky, exigent, and puts one inside of someone else, sentimentality is superficial and does nothing to expand our understanding.