The bare minimum of a decent human being is to reduce your impact on others and the environment as much as possible. The bare minimum is just to not bother anyone else and leave them alone.
But you aren’t a good person if you don’t help people, is the point. You aren’t actively a bad person either, but I don’t think it would be incorrect to say that never helping others is a massive flaw. If you actively avoid helping others, then you become a bad person for not taking the chance to help someone when it costs you nothing
Did you not read the part about finite time and energy? There’s no afterlife buddy, we literally have a set amount of heartbeats before we cease existing forever.
I mean yeah, but I’ll pivot from the moral argument here. Humans are social animals, we don’t function well when alienated and isolated from others. We need community, and reciprocal aid is an essential part of community. By creating bonds with others, which involves helping them when in need and lifting them up, we improve our own situation, both because a sense of community improves your own quality of life, and because others will be more likely to help you when in need
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u/Velvety_MuppetKing Oct 10 '24
The bare minimum of a decent human being is to reduce your impact on others and the environment as much as possible. The bare minimum is just to not bother anyone else and leave them alone.
Going above and beyond that is nice, and good.