to return to this argument in another fashion…
Liberal: being liberal toward another… that is one classical
definition of being liberal… open, generous, kind, being liberal is about
giving…
we know that biological, many animals practice altruism toward one another…
we know that humans practice altruism toward each other… this are facts
not in dispute in the scientific community… we are social creatures and
being altruistic does help our social community…those who promote the idea
of being selfish, greed is good, do not practice nor promote this biological
idea of altruism…yet these same people who deny the value of altruism
practice it with kin of theirs… you see in the current white house, many, many
members of certain families working in IQ45 white house… now this may be
altruism or it maybe more of a tit for tat, as the idiot devoss family has given
many millions to both IQ45 and the GOP party… and so was rewarded by getting
the post of education secretary, a cabinet post… is that tit for tat or altruism,
you decide…
but you see family members being rewarded just for being family members,
this is a kin altruism versus a general altruism toward our fellow man…
and this is common even in GOP/conservative world…kin reward or kin altruism…
this idea of altruism makes sense especially in small, groups of people but
it also makes sense of general altruism in such small groups…
we see these people every day, from family to work groups to
political groups, to any group of people we associate with in a regular
basis…but let us think back to the beginning or the origin of the human being…
we lived in groups of no more then 150 people… people we engaged with
every single day…not did we engaged with, but in order to survive, we
must engage with… now individuals die, but the group continued
and it is such a thing that individuals die but have the group go on…
that is really the point because we do die… we often must make
sacrifices within a group for the group to go on…I am a parent
and I have sacrificed to allow my daughter to grow and become
an adult today… and someday, perhaps, she will become a parent
and do the same for her child… for we, as parents, do sacrifice
for our children and we sacrifice for our kin, brothers and sisters
and parents… the group will go on because we have done our part…
made our sacrifices to allow the group to go on and so, we can imagine
in the early days of people sacrifices themselves to allow the group to go on…
and we see this today with policemen and firemen and service personnel…
those who preach that greed is good and that being selfish cannot
appreciate or value the sacrifice made to allow the group to go on…
because those who preach greed and being selfish can only preach
the individual above society, the individual above the group…
even though the group, the society will go on and the individual will die…
we cannot be so selfish and greedy that we cannot put own needs before
the group or before society…
so the question becomes… how far does your idea of kin go?
is kin just family or is kin something beyond just kin…
my argument has been that we are connected to more then just
ourselves or to our immediate family… we are connected to
everyone on planet earth, indeed, we are connected to all life…
and not just peripheral, but I believe we are connected
directly to each other… and we must practice altruism for all
creatures, great and small… and all humans great and small…
for we are connected to another…great and small…
Kropotkin