Department of Compassionate Services

A brief time ago, in a land not unlike this one, there lived a bear named Nod. Bears are compassionate animals, and Nod was a most compassionate bear. Unlike most animals that have some empathy for others, bears have the active desire to alleviate another beings suffering. Bears express their social altruism in the golden rule, the first rule of bears, Do for others as you would wish them to do fo...