I’m honestly not sure what Mr Pope was trying to say there.
its pretty bad grammatically. maybe he had one too many Jesus wines.
he’s american
ā€œActing with compassion will improve life for everybody.ā€
Your version is definitely more succinct.
Blows my mind that half of the USA think compassion is woke and to be avoided
This is by design; it’s difficult to demonize ā€œthe othersā€ if you have even a drop of compassion.
It’s not like they changed, they were already like this. We need to shame people about this more

That you have to have a heart. You have to believe in things, and see right from wrong

We’re losing that as a species. Laws aren’t a replacement for morality, but they’re treated like it

There’s no set of laws that could save us from global warming or bring the local community together. But these are very necessary things