| I think some were quick to dismiss you, but I think you actually ask a question that's truly non obvious for a lot of people. Why care about others? Why care about anyone else but ourselves? Personally, I feel it's because we're stronger together. The more united we could be as a race, the stronger our race would be. We'd probably innovate and invent quicker, leveraging the potential of each one's evolutionary traits. It would also eliminate our biggest threat. Other humans have been a large cause of danger for a long time. If we could bend together at full scale, we'd eliminatea huge problem. Finally, I think it's also because our happiness depends on others too. Feeling loved and appreciated is necessary to us. Having people to play, laugh and party with, people to eat with, to exchange and interact with while feeling safe and accepted is probably a fundamental human need. Giving it to others is one of the best strategy to in turn receive it from others. So caring for others is a good way to have others care for you. Now, I'm being generic. Why care for those specific Afghan girl is probably even harder to understand. I'm not sure I have the full answer. I think it's simply that not doing so would be counter productive to the goal of uniting all humans. And as I explained, there could be good reason to want this outcome. But not everyone is convinced that outcome would be best for them, or that defaulting to universally caring for all is the best way to reach that outcome. Maybe that's the case for you. In which case, there's only a few possibilities. What's best for you isn't for me. You're wrong in thinking it's best for you. I'm wrong in thinking its best for me. Or we're both wrong. Either ways, I think we could all do with talking more about this, because its actually not obvious, at least to a large number of people. |