Comments on The Mirror of Aphrodite: If Everyone Cared . . .

When we are born, we are all very selfish. As we g...

2009-05-18T10:35:00.000-04:00

When we are born, we are all very selfish. As we grow up this selfishness should yield to concern for others in our lives. Eventually a self actualized person will be able to reach out to the needs or at least the feelings of others. The idea of giving up something so someone else can maybe have more challenges this personal growth when the need to protect oneself and possessions is realized and a choice is required. Throw in the idea that others are not really worthy of our sacrifice and it is then easy to just protect one’s own stuff and refuse any concern for others with the result being a very selfish uncaring or unconcerned world.

The previous comment about paying a tax to help someone else is a very real example of my point.

When we are born, we are all very selfish. As we g...

2009-05-18T10:33:00.000-04:00

Thank you so much for this. :)

2008-11-15T14:02:00.000-05:00

Thank you so much for this. :)

Shalom,Objective perfection such as Utopia is impo...

2008-11-12T15:12:00.000-05:00

Shalom,

Objective perfection such as Utopia is impossible to ever reach in our finite |individual and collective| consciousness.

I find that your interpretation is that we should all love and respect one another and then we will live in relative peace. Correct?

This is moreover a question of deriving human rights and values. If I have the right to own land, that may mean that I deprive you of the power to own land despite your inherent right.

So then is it a question of what rights are secured and powers are secured by governments as core as opposed to collateral human dilemmas?

If we then agree on securing basic human necessities for everyone, where does that lead? People can then enforce with taxation the necessary quota in order to achieve such tasks. But should someone who is unemployed be entitled to live off the backs of others?

Should someone who is unmarried and without children and works be taxed in order to support other people's children, marriage/civil-union costs?

Respect and love is difficult when others infringe on another's individual sovereignty. I have been accused of being selfish and hateful by people who make broad generalizations and assumptions of what simple solutions should be for everyone, then try to enforce them as if by providence.

But lets suppose further that these people are willing to work in a field for money, but this field is of relative unimportance to everyone else within society? Should it be our goal to enforce tax so that this individual could be payed to live? Then the definition of work for society has been obscured to such a degree that people no longer think it is fair that they work earnestly when someone can be payed the same amount through enforced taxation for some obscure line of work that could easily be interpreted as lazying around.

Furthermore, I agree that love and sharing are important values. But that it is difficult to label what these are when humanity in itself is so dynamic. I only wanted to paint some dissenting colours because the post seemed to be lacking.

Spot on.Unfortunately I only think the human race ...

2008-09-28T08:59:00.000-04:00

Spot on.

Unfortunately I only think the human race will continue to degenerate. Still - their will be diamonds in the rough.

Good thought provoking post! It may be surprising;...

2008-08-30T14:42:00.000-04:00

Good thought provoking post! It may be surprising; but there are *many* souls who are do-gooders. It's just that we have to find them. In addition, I would say, many more are good some of the time. We just have to make sure that part of them comes out! :)

chaitanya
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"people generally just do not treat one another wi...

2008-08-22T21:30:00.000-04:00

"people generally just do not treat one another with kindness and love." Sadly, this has been true since our earliest ancestors. Perhaps we are in an enlightened era where gutting and torture is frowned upon, but this was not so a mere few hundred years ago and carries true in some cultures today, such as some African nations.