Barbara Lazear Ascher in “On Compassion” believes that compassion is something that we learned and develop, not something that is embedded in our DNA. Compassion is a trait that we are born with. After all, would compassion even exist if one did not have it in the first place? In order for humans to survive, we had to naturally have compassion in order to survive on our own and as a race. When a human is born, their innocence to the world makes them naturally have an instinct of compassion and to help others. When can haul this behavior is hate. Hate is something that is learned overtime. A child has no hate in his or her’s heart until taught to by their environment. They are taught not to talk to a certain someone, or they are bad, or “I don’t