(May 18, 2015 at 10:23 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Do you agree with the following?
Life is preferable to death.
Health is preferable to disease.
Freedom is preferable slavery.
Comfort is preferable to pain.
If you do, it doesn't even require empathy to be able to tell that slavery is wrong. All it takes is a bit of rational thinking.
Yes, I agree, as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. Jesus told us to love our brother as we love ourselves. He said we should give to the poor. He told us to love our enemies. How do you understand "agape love"? is it physical stuff, or is it something else?