This has never happened before, and it’s a total secret & absolutely dangerous so I don’t blame ya if you keep your distance.
I’m starting this crazy fad where you treat every self as an other, and every other as a self. But here’s the key: Nobody tells you to do it. You just do it because you know inside yourself/other that it’s right. It’s prolly not gonna last, so—risk is very high.
It’s an anarchy of ends. It smashes all unjust laws that are no law at all.
We are not running on a platform. Unless someone is chasing us.
“Make earth Eden again! but still with the clothes!”
Love your neighbor (another individual with a personality) as you love yourself --but if you don’t love yourself, love the other person anyway; for that is the kind of person you are - someone who wants to be a good character rather than a bad character.
The good characters have many desirable traits, some of which I have described earlier at the Philosophy form when teaching the basics of Ethics.
And remember: “Treat others decently if you want them to treat you decently.”
I wrote about this in the first chapter of the first Reference linked to below.
I mean it here in the in this sense; it is service.[Although there is nothing nnecessarily wrong with philia and eros or other senses of the word], here it is intended to mean ‘being of service.’
Readiness to give loving service, and following up one’s good-intentions by actually performing voluntarily a service that is acknowledged as helpful, (even if one is not thanked for it, or appreciated for it.)
It is however, a good idea to check in advance to see if what you are about to do is really helpful and wanted. “Would it be okay if I …”?
Also I might suggest: Extend the radius of your moral compass! Sweep in as many individuals as you can into that circle you speak of as your in-group. Have the attitude “There are no strangers.”
In this way your answer the question: Who is my meighbor?
Anyhow – Love your neighbor as you love yourself. This is the Silver, the Gold, and the Platinum Rule. It is not enough for explaining the data of Ethics, but it will do for now.
So many good thoughts there. I would caution against teaching kids there are no strangers, though. There are definitely wolves in sheep’s clothing that require us to teach our kids how to tell the difference and what to do if they feel uncomfortable by how someone treats them, and not let them out of a trusted adult’s sight until they know how to tell the difference and what to do about it.
I like your definition of love, and I think it is also a great definition of leadership.
I was recommending the concept “there are no strangers” as one for mature adults to consider.
In an Ethics course for, say, high-school seniors, or for college freshmen and women, it would be taught as a lesson on the topic: The Inclusivity Principle …one of the many moral guidelines, or standards, one could add to one’s repertoire as a concept to live by if one so chooses to do so. It suggests including more and more people into your in-group. The entire human species is our support group, and eventually we will realize that that is so …as we evolve to higher stages of insight.
The science of Ethics, when applied, by creative “engineers,” and designers, will result in new ‘technologies’ such as better methods of educating. At present, it suggests that we urge new parents to take courses in good parenting.
By highschool or college it is too late to reach people about the various forms of The Golden Rule, and why they should take the “rule” seriously. The sharing and caring that kids are taught in pre-school and in kindergarten need to be reinforced positively in each subsequent year of primary and elementary school.
Even better, they learn it “on their mother’s knee.” This assumes they have good parents with skills in child-rearing. Unfortunately, there are today too many bad parents. Thus we see the prevalence of Nazis, domestic terrorists, and wild, violence-prone deviants.
To all Readers: What say you about any of these topics?
Love is an evolutionary method of overcoming anxiety/fear to allow cooperative reproductive and survival strategies to evolve.
A form of projection. the individual is flooded with hormones that makes him/her more tolerant, binding him/her to another.
Ducklings emerge from their egg and bond with the first being they encounter.
Most of us remember our mothers “teaching” us “How would you feel if they did that to you?”
Our first logic. A=A, they=you. With feeling.
A logic that transcends particular self-feeling into what is objectively true about all selves feeling—but stays immanent.
Asks us to universalize (recognize—not invent) the sameness between every subject.
We have to invent the mentally contortionist excuses and rationalizations (“There is no responsible subject” is well on the way to catatonia if one …lives it out) whenever we will/power differently.
Hope is the deepest level of the mind/Psyche. It is the mind-body’s instinctive reflex against Fear, its catharsis. Existence triggers your anxiety; so your brain creates a balance. A person’s Hope, reveals themselves, their motives, their desires, their objectives, everything. It’s like reading somebody’s mind.
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I’m not saying that it is unwise to hope, just that following a religious moral dogma and reality, must combine… so when in Rome, but not actually being or becoming, Roman.
“Love Thy Neighbor or Love Thy Neighbour refers to the Biblical phrase “thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” from the Book of Leviticus in the Old Testament about the ethic of reciprocity known as the Golden Rule or the Great Commandment.”
Oftentimes, we can only care for those that care for themselves… some don’t even want that/another’s care, when they become truly lost.
The Old & New Testaments exploit human nature, preaching a kind of love that make love meaningless…a whore’s love. Universal love.
They weaponize shame.
Recovering Abrahamics become shameless…in theory, as their rebellion against this warping of words.
So, all they know of morality is Abrahamic ethics.
They become a-moral’ as their rejection of them…but have no clue what morals are.
Their minds are engulfed in Abrahamic semiotics/linguistics.
