I am coming here not with politics but with my amateur psychological philosophy. To be quick, I think, with due regard, what Vishontar-jee is feeling for the king at the moment is not a compassion in Buddhist or ordinary sense, but a situational sympathy produced by what is known as a "reverse psychology". Buddhist compassion, as far as I have understood, is neither situational nor manipulative or discriminatory. A Buddhist who is feeling a compassion for the disgraced king would feel the same compassion for the people who disgraced the king. So, it ain't no higher compassion. It's rather a pretty mundane "reverse" sympathy coming out of an easily impressed mind or one sparking at the spur of the moment. This kind may have psychological significance obviously, but it does not have any moral value whatsoever. My worthless arrogant dui shabda. Nepe