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Me, myself and my own needs
- ggchappell 14y agoI think there is something to what you say, but we need to be careful reasoning from examples like this. Stand in a Tube station for a few minutes at a busy time of day, and you will see more people than most people saw in their entire lives, not too many centuries ago. That one of those people is callous, is not indicative of a trend. But those numbers might be the problem. Asking a typical human to care about the 200-odd people is his rural village, is asking a lot, and so moral teachers have been pounding on their message for millennia, in an effort to get us all to behave. But now we want them to care about everyone they see in a Tube station, including some girl they never saw before, and may never see again. We want them to behave ethically toward fellow WoW players, whom they have never seen, and, in all probability, will never see at all. That might be asking a bit much of Mr. Average Human. Arranging society to deal with this fact, is not an easy problem.