<p>Does your platitudinous verbosity have a toggle-switch? Pretentious thread is pretentious, and demonstrates philosophical ineptitude.</p>
<p>Certain terms and their negations (especially “rational,” “logical,” “reasonable,” and the like, in the context of this discussion) have dissimilar, or sometimes even disparate meanings when one makes the transition from casual speech to philosophical discourse (one could draw an analogy from the different meanings of the word “diagnosis” in biology and medicine). Please try to avoid muddling these in the future.</p>
<p>Now, for my thoughts on your original question:<br>
If one can do nothing to alter unfavorable circumstances, then caring about them squarely falls into the nonsensical category. However, this transgression is customarily forgiven in our culture, and for good reason. Reprimanding someone for grieving over such circumstances would accomplish nothing, and would, in fact, be a fantastic way to alienate yourself from them. </p>
<p>The question you have raised is one of the most vacuous questions you could ask about human compassion, I hope you feel good about yourself. Your perfervid “compassion” is of no consequence until it has some external impact.</p>
<p>And for the record, “Mensa-level intellect” is nothing special. I have an IQ of 136 on the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale, I could be in Mensa.</p>