I see nothing "compassionate" in your desire to control your neighbor's property to accomplish your own ends.
It's very much like what Democrats do every day.
A principle you abandon at the first sign of trouble is no principle at all.
Freedom must be preserved even in the worst of times. It's not a commodity to be rationed only when skies are clear.
I know we disagree and won't change each other's minds. But what you preach isn't compassion - it's compulsion. It's the very same as government welfare, rather than legitimate charity.
I'll have none of it.
I don't kneel at the same throne you do, bub. I kneel before a heavenly one.
Actually the Jews have a good word for this -- "mitzvah." Something God commands.