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Do you ever prioritize the needs of family members over the average person on the street?
by DanAndersen 9y ago
Do you ever prioritize the needs of family members over the average person on the street?
- jacquesm 9y agoTricky semantic bits won't get you there. See also: the trolley problem and other interesting mental gymnastics to prove that others are less important than the ones that you know about. Eventually such thinking leads to wars.
- harryh 9y agoAll people might have equal objective value. But some people matter more to me than other people. And what matters to me is what informs my choices and actions.
- jacquesm 9y ago> And what matters to me is what informs my choices and actions. Obviously. Now let's hope that 'you and yours' will not be on the receiving end of that stick with someone else wielding it. I'm pretty sure that if that were to happen you would be all up in arms and screaming for the equality that you now wish to deny others. See also: force protection doctrine, contractors being able to commit war crimes with impunity and other exponents of such thinking.
- harryh 9y agoI certainly don't expect people on the other side of the world to care about me very much. Why would I? Do you really have that expectation? Has it been your experience of the world?
- jdietrich 9y agoI share no kinship with a stranger just because they have they carry the same passport, speak the same language or have the same colour of skin. To imagine otherwise is an extraordinarily dangerous error.