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I saved the lives of two worms the other day by moving them from a dry path to the verge.
Why? I asked myself.
Because to a higher being looking down on me, I may seem like a worm, & if she sees me being kind to worm, perhaps she'll be kind to me.
I knew when I wrote the above tweet that I was half-jokingly rationalising my motive for saving the worms.

My actual, spontaneous, motive, I'm pretty sure, was compassion. But showing compassion for a worm is embarrassing, like crying at a scene in a sentimental film.
Most humans are capable of compassion, which is one of our more likeable traits. I say "capable", because we have to be very selective about showing or indulging it. Otherwise I'd have to spend my whole day saving worms, or whatever.
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