Third, this is the perfect example of what Venerable Fulton Sheen described as “false empathy.” He defined it: “False compassion … is a pity that is shown not the mugged, but to the mugger. Not to the family of the murdered, but to the murderer. Not to the woman who was raped, but to the rapist. Not to the poor girl who is given a shot of dope, but to the rich boy who happens to come from a fine family. There are some judges, some in some of our courts, there are some social workers, there are sob sisters, there are the social slobberers who insist on compassion being shown to the muggers, to the dope fiends, to the throat slashers, to the beatniks, to the prostitutes, to the homosexuals, to the punks. So that today the decent man is practically off the reservation. This is the false compassion.”