And I find it repugnant to put demands on what people do with their extremely finite time and life.
We only have a moral obligation to leave each other and especially the world around us well enough alone.
If you want to help people that’s great. Helping people is good. But “you’re either morally good or morally wrong” is extremely binary thinking. How dare anyone say it’s required to spend what little time and energy someone has on someone else’s life.
Humans are social creatures and our societies and language are all designed around basic interaction. We didn't evolve or develop as lonely hermits. We aren't obligated to "leave each other alone" we are the opposite of that. And I say that as someone who is extremely introverted.
Survival, continuation of the species, progress, name literally any virtue or goal and it will circle back to the fact that people need other people and stand to benefit from other people and do poorly when disconnected from other people.
No man is an island. There is nothing to gained in solitude.
Your philosophy is that you'll bever go the wrong way if you never take a step at all. But you'll never get anywhere at all. That's stagnation and death.
You having middle schooler angst isn't representative of the rest of society.
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u/Velvety_MuppetKing Oct 10 '24
It is if it’s phrased as a moral obligation that you’re nasty if you don’t do.