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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (86582)	8/27/2000 12:25:27 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

"and sometimes WE are grudging, but in each case WE are upholding the dignity of the individual...so that WE give...as WE ask for it...and this is the most fundamental rule WE can generate" Who is WE and who are the WE that generate the rules? Is the WE rule encoded somewhere? "If you have the choice either to save one person you care about or to save ten people you don't care about, you should save the one you love -- the other option is a waste of your effort and a self-sacrifice. If you save the one you love you personally benefit from doing so. Other people can be of value to you because the are capable of practicing the same virtues. But you do not see them as interchangeable with your own life. Your life is the source of your values and even your capacity to value. When you value others, it is an extension of valuing yourself. It is species solidarity" You cannot rescue people from "poverty, ignorance, neurosis or whatever other troubles they might have. Illness and poverty are not metaphysical emergencies. You may choose to help an ill man if it is within your means. But don't feel compelled to subordinate your goals to his. Altruism assumes a malevolent universe it assumes that our goal is to combat disaster."