In the Christian moral world, evil takes a thousand forms and pierces the heart of each. The idea of sin is denied ex cathedra. The one who has the right opinion belongs ipso facto on the side of the just. This accusatory moralism is also a compassionate moralism. The chattering classes resonate with emotion before the world's unhappiness.
Compassion belongs to the obligatory sentiments - provided that it takes the appropriate form.
The love of humanity does not concern itself with the family circle or the neighborhood. It requires only an emotion, a gesture, not a true engagement. It demands that we submit to the authority of the present because it is the present, to submit to the reigning view because it is the general view. That more fundamental issues might be at stake is simply denied, and discussion is held to be superfluous. These are orders to submit to authorities other than reason, to abdicate all genuine freedom of thought.