If you must call it patronising, I think that's true of anyone, or more precisely put, "... only feel sympathy for those who you feel are deserving of sympathy". Next you'll be telling me you sympathise with poor Gary Glitter, in jail and possibly facing the death penalty for kiddy sex.

>So you only feel sympathy for those who meet your approval. Thats rather patronising don't you think ?
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>Nick Mason
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>>Sympathy for what? The freezing Pakistanis? I have sympathy for them. They didn't bring it upon themselves. ANd they're not squandering a second chance of life but struggling to survive the first.
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>>>Please
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>>>enough with the sympathy.
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>>>Nick