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> they don't care to step in and impose compassion, so they might as well not exist.

Is this not what the store owners did?

[_DeadFred_]

Zero patrons inside the stores cared/did anything. A business structuring things to prevent a scene is not compassion in my mind, just like pride awareness by businesses wasn't actual pride awareness.

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But, by your definition, the liberal take of government-mandated compassion would also not be compassion.