From Norway with Love

You helped people because it was right to help them. Because life was the most precious, the most beautiful and most mysterious thing there was, and where there was pain or suffering or danger, you wanted to stop it, because it was detrimental to life. But that was just an explanation too, albeit a closer one to the truth. Compassion couldn’t be explained. Like altruism, and love, and charity. People risked or sacrificed thing for another, without reason or logic, and in some way that defied explanation it was noble, and good, and perfect.

But how could you explain all that to someone who didn’t understand emotions?