"...a person is only truly compassionate if they voluntarily do it on their own."

Well said.

""The government cannot mandate virtue.""

Yet, that is most of what government in the USA is now doing, as far as I can see. What else is The War Against Treatment (TWAT - what many refer to as the War Against Drugs, or WAD)?

Prohibition of alcohol proved to be a great wrong that people resisted. Other drugs are less popular. Prohibition isn't less wrong, for those things. It's just less unpopular.

Thanks!