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Joseph Butler

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

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Understanding this quote AI Analysis

Joseph Butler is saying that feeling compassion is a natural and urgent impulse, just like feeling hungry is a natural signal that you need to eat. Both compassion and hunger push us to take action—compassion makes us want to help those who are suffering, just as hunger drives us to find food.

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