(April 5, 2017 at 9:32 am)MysticKnight Wrote:(April 5, 2017 at 8:17 am)Chad32 Wrote: It's not a paradox. I value myself above others because I'm responsible for my body. No one else is. At least not once I grew up enough to take care of myself. It's just a personal responsibility to value yourself more than others, otherwise you'd wither away and die.
That doesn't follow. All that proves is you ought to take responsibility for yourself and actions, not that you ought to value yourself more than others.
Why does anyone of any religion feel the need to attach life to a book or sky hero? Nothing in life is a perfect utopia or script.
"Take responsibility", in what context because that is a loaded cliche. Humans can go as individuals doing their best and still fail. And life is not a matter of never valuing yourself, you should, it is why you don't cross a busy street without looking both ways for traffic. No, having that self preservation does not mean one has to be selfish either.
We say this to Muslims and Jews and Hindus and Buddhists and Christians. NOBODY owns a patent on morality. Humans as individuals are perfectly capable of empathy and doing good regardless of their pet claims. I don't remember which founder said it but "To do good is my religion". But even then that is a loaded cliche because everyone has their own idea of what "good " is.
Some think title and class is the seat of morality, others think their economic ideology is the seat of morality, others think their religious club is the seat of morality. Yet our species has never been a separate species. Ultimately no matter our different views we are still the same species and we are all still stuck on the same planet. I think the best responsibility would be shifting our species priorities away from labels and put those on the back burner and focus on solving issues of pollution, reducing human conflict and provide more humans with economic stability worldwide.
