Bay Area Gang Problems: Should we have compassion for a community callus?

Eva Tovar Gil
Professor Monique Williams
English 1A
October 21, 2013

Many gang members have eventually died inside due to the fact that no compassion is offered towards them. Gang members are individuals who others view as hazards for society and deny to show or offer compassion towards them. However, these group of individuals are no different from the rest of us and depend from others sympathy to stay together and alive. As mentioned in Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle "Author and psychiatrist James Gilligan writes that the self cannot survive without love, and the self, starved of love, dies." (Boyle 46) Compassion makes an individual feel good it makes him feel as if somebody or anybody cares for him; that he matters. Many people from callous communities chase after a hopeless damaging path because there's no advice contributed against their harming actions. Often advice is received by one's own parents or other relative who just want the best for one. Yet, too frequent there's no way to have hold of this person for certain reasons. Many parents spend their time making money to support their families and have no time to put towards advising their children. Alike any other teenager kids become rebellious and do what pleases his desires. Many children, teenagers and even adults at many times wonder around the harmful environments in seek for something that fulfills their desire and get involved with trouble, until it becomes a habit doing it. Alike drugs, in which many get into, getting into trouble also becomes an addiction and it gets hard to get rid of. Many of the individuals who become addicted to entity need support from others get of the enslaved habits. They require for someone to let them know that they matter and their life has a value. That their state of being alive isn't just of benefit for them but for others as well. Having compassion towards these falling people can attain them some advice and lead them through a good path. A path that they themselves will enjoy later on in life, not a path they will regret of. In spite of the fact that falling forms process of the lifting, it takes someone to have compassion and to be there to guide him towards the higher roadway. Although, if no benevolence of such type is put towards these group of individuals,  gang members are the productivity for this absence of compassion.