merrymadscientist wrote:
As it is, I wont even have a positive effect on some temporary lives
Can any one person accurately conclude that based on his or her limited point of view, 'line of sight', perspective
or whatever the right word for that idea is?
It is sort of an
"I'm not flawless therefore I shouldn't exist" way of thinking.
Here's some homework, come back in two or three days with the names of everyone who
is flawless and back that up with detailed records of their every thought and every action.
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I wont even have a positive effect on some temporary lives
Which, by definition, means you will have a positive effect on some others.
"Fairness" may not be the right concept for what I want to say, but it's the closest word I can find to my thoughts right now.
A person takes the above line of thought and then says to themselves,
"I won't have a positive effect on some, therefore I won't make an effort to have an effect on any." Is that fair to the people that there would have been a positive effect on?
There's probably another implied globalization of
"since I can't have a positive effect on every life my life is worthless." Wrong.
Sort of an,
"I can't cook fried eggs worth a d@@@, therefore I won't ever make an effort to eat anything else again." approach.
Not exactly rational.
Perhaps an allegorical expression of an emotion.
But nowhere near a logical connection between those two points.
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