Toward Ecosophy

Valuable? Maybe. Safe? No. Surely anyone who's been a fool in the name of compassion — and I am one — is going to recommend a touch of caution about flinging oneself wholeheartedly into a compassion practice, and double caution about goosing it up. If you're lucky, you only wind up giving more money to a beggar than you'd otherwise consider appropriate. If you're not lucky, you'll tangle with someone who is both vulnerable and exploitative/destructive, and you'll get a much more expensive lesson in "idiot compassion".