>Compassion or no, it's fundamentally hypocritical to espouse productivity as a virtue and then do an about-face in your own personal choices.
It need not be hypocritical to perform actions that disregard one of your claimed virtues, as long as said actions are in line with some of your other claimed virtues (or in line with well-founded consequentialist-type reasoning).
A man who preaches courage may find himself on a battlefield where courageous action leads to certain death, and would be wise to retreat to safety.
It need not be hypocritical to perform actions that disregard one of your claimed virtues, as long as said actions are in line with some of your other claimed virtues (or in line with well-founded consequentialist-type reasoning).
A man who preaches courage may find himself on a battlefield where courageous action leads to certain death, and would be wise to retreat to safety.