Duncan Trussell
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This is what Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche called idiot compassion.
There's compassion, then there's idiot compassion.
Now, idiot compassion is thinking that leaving a bunch of people out in the streets who have varying degrees of psychosis and drug addiction and long-term brain injury...
And then thinking it's let's just let them do their thing when they obviously need help.
If they were if those were 11 year olds, go back to the kid idea.
If those are like eight year olds, people would be helping them because they're right.
Because they're full grown.
It's an open-air combination mental asylum, drug market.
They're tapping into electrical lines.
And they do, you know.
Wouldn't want to walk barefoot around there, man.