In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

I am speaking of our personal suffering about contributing to the suffering of others.

I'd rather feel a pang of pain at seeing other-self body parts at the grocery store, than harden so much that I feel nothing.

Beyond that- yes compassion is a good and virtuous quality from which to make choices. However beyond compassion are also other qualities such as faith, love, and wisdom or joy. Honesty, forgiveness, mercy, patience, gratitude. There is a whole smorgasbord to choose from!

But even just considering compassion alone, everybody has their own idea about what that means, and even then their idea tends to change over time.

Goodness gracious, no one has suggested that we choose compassion at the exclusion of those others!