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I'm not big on pity or feeling sorry for people in general. I basically think that all people are whole and complete and perfect, and there are actions that we all take that have consequences, and we all have barriers to our fully expressing that wholeness, completeness, and perfection. I believe that people are fundamentally big and capable, and pitying them or feeling sorry for them inevitably diminishes them--and if you do it for long enough, they start believing themselves to be small and incapable.
I can have compassion for the human being that would make the choices and take the actions that would end them up in jail or whatever. Let he who has never done a stupid thing in his life cast the first stone, I say. But that's very different from pity.
Can I be kind to them? Sure. I would hope that I could choose kindness and forgiveness even someone someone committed a crime against me.
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