Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Why Love and Who Are You?
God (if yo are a believer) doesn't seem to take part in daily micromanagement of world affairs and we are very much free do do as we please. Including do wrong and including harm ourselves and others. Yet deep inside we are similar and some see this as proof of one creator and I agree with them but that is not the point. The truth is that we come to this world profoundly similar deep inside but with varied talents and free will to use or wasted them as we wish still our rights remain the same but our lives and personalities are unique. In this we try to unite or identify with certain groups we find useful and that's the only way to reach our goals. Unfortunately sometimes such unity is turned against non-members and that is counterproductive and bad, if not outright criminal. Therefore the only real claim to justice that I can possibly have are my own interests, and the only real ethical guide in the call to love your neighbor like you love yourself, no more but as you love yourself (it is then obvious that if you do not love yourself you cannot possibly love anybody).
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Perhaps we are, as you say, similar deep inside but differ in the amount of self-love we have. And perhaps the groups we form have to do with this difference, are based on this difference, essentially. Where does that leave us ethically? Is love of neighbor capable of scaling the walls built up around the groups of those who cannot love anyone because they do not love themselves? Or can you love others while not loving yourself?
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