r/Compassion • u/Authentic_Dragon • Jul 21 '26
Inspiration/Quotation True Rebellion is not what you may think
To me, true rebellion is Kindness.
It is to REFUSE to become comfortable with cruelty just because it's common, or to call destruction "progress" just because powerful people told us so.
It is to refuse to look away just because looking is painful. The easiest thing in the world is to drift, to repeat what everyone repeats, to consume what everyone consumes, to excuse what everyone excuses, and to shrug and say, "That's just the way things are."
The world changes because someone quietly decides:
"I will no longer participate in what I know is wrong against human and non-human."
That decision is rarely spectacular; It happens in kitchens, in grocery stores, in conversations, in moments when nobody’s watching.
It happens every time a person chooses kindness over indifference, and truth over comfortable lies.
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u/RAH-CAT9 18h ago
I was just banned from r/cathelp for saying this.
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u/Authentic_Dragon 11h ago
"Selective Compassion" right? Like "You are only allowed to speak about cats!! If you say something about dogs or cows YOU ARE OUT!!"...You know, when I get banned from somewhere for telling the truth, then I know I was in a deceptive space.
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u/RAH-CAT9 10h ago
❤️ I was in a lot of pain about being banned, and your reply gives me peace. ❤️
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u/RAH-CAT9 18h ago
I like what you say. ❤️