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Thank you for your kind words. I think Nietzsche is most suspicious of compassion when it takes the form of pity -- particularly when the act of pity does nothing to help the person pitied but nevertheless seems to weaken the person feeling the emotion. To simplify a little, he also seems to be concerned that weaker people should not be supported too much if this leads to the propagation of more weakness. However, my understanding is that, in recent years, research in psychological and anthropology has suggested that compassion and in particular empathy are hugely important for most aspects of humans' success as a species. Lastly, in the famous story of Nietzsche's final moments of sanity, he broke down in a particularly un-Nietzschean moment of pity for a horse that was being flogged in the street, throwing his arms round it and sobbing. If the story is accurate, perhaps even Nietzsche could not resist being susceptible to this emotion, and in many of his personal letters he shows himself to be in some ways a highly humane and considerate individual.