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View submission: /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | January 20, 2020
How should we treat others?
Let me set some assumptions: We've evolved from chimps and there is only this life and body. Also the objective of life itself (not only human life) is to replicate and persist over time.
Let me define to treat as to consciously behave in regard to others in a spectrum between behave for the other benefits and behave for your own benefit. Not sure if i'm clear in this point, sry, english is not my fist language
Now, how do we have a conscious? As we evolved from chimps we are social animals. It allow us to navigate our everyday more complex social interactions. Those who had a stronger conscious survived.
How should we treat others? In order for our genes to persist we should treat our children well, so that they may continue expreding our genes once we are gone and continue to pursue the objective of life.
How should we treat others that are not our children? Our siblings do share must of our genes, so it may be a good investment to treat them well , but not as much as our children.
Our neighbours used to be genetically closer, way back in the day people use to live all their life on the same town and as such everyone was more or less related to one another. But now our neighbour may be from a different continent. How should we treat someone we are not related? Certainly not as good as we treat our siblings. We are in a competitive environment, resources are finite and we should prioritize our children and siblings on the hand out of them. Only after we had succeeded in satisfy to the fullest their needs and wants we should start worrying about unrelated neighbours and start considering the needs and wants of other humans and humanity as a whole.
How should we treat the not human? Again, only after we satisfy to the fullest their needs and wants we should start worrying about not humans. Perhaps starting with monkeys.
Edit 1: 1.Should not be seen as hard bariers but as a gradient of how well you should treat it. Not shure how to phrase it.
2. Hope you guys like the argument and let me know your counters, please maintain the assumptions on the first parragraph.
Edit 2:
Repost from original atempt to here
Comment by furaddhufd at 27/01/2020 at 14:45 UTC
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Yes racism