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I have always believed that when people do not do something and someone dies when the first person could have done something it is immorally wrong. When someone murdrers another person, what they did (stabbing, beating, shooting, whatever) caused another human being to die. When someone sees the murder taking place but doesn't call 911 to stop, their actions (doing nothing) caused that person to die. I do believe that in this situation the murderer is worse than the witness, I still believe that the witness acted immorally.
I am also a supporter of this philosophy becase it supports us helping out one another. Many people believe in the 'don't cause harm but think for yourself' philosohpy, but it makes the world a worse place. First off, it encourages people to go out and try to gain as much they can and step on other people if they have to. Even if the person does believe that they shouldn't harm others, the focus of the belief is to help themselves and they do just that even if it means hurting others, and then they'll rationalize their behavior. Another reason is that if we all think for ourselves, we won't help other people. This is awful because most of the world lives very poorly. If we all accepted this philosophy, the oppressed would get no help to get out of their situation, even if all they needed was a little helping hand. But if we accept my philosophy, helping others will be the main focus, and if we do that we will always be helping people and looking out for them, and it would make the world a better place. I gurantee that pretty much every single problem on this planet would not have occurred if we all had been thinking of other people when we made our decisions.
Recently, I've been pondering and I've come at a conclusion that makes me feel horrible. If my philosophy is true, every single person on Apolyton and probably 99% of the population of wealthy nations act very immorally. Now for someone on Apolyton, they have cars, clothes, many luxuries that people of poor nations couldn't dream of, and computers. They could sell everything they have, work a lot, and donate everything they earn to people in third world countries that are dying of malnutrition or lack of medicine. If they did this, they'd be saving lives. However, no one does this. So that means because of our inaction, people are dying. Children in India would beg people in the United States do to this, but we wouldn't because we're thinking of ourselves. Every person that dies of malnutrition or of a disease that could've been cured, that person could've been saved if we would've donated more money to third world countries. But we didn't. What we did (not giving them money which we would use to buy something useless, but they would've used for food and to save a life) caused that person to die.
So shouldn't every person here feel guilty?
I am also a supporter of this philosophy becase it supports us helping out one another. Many people believe in the 'don't cause harm but think for yourself' philosohpy, but it makes the world a worse place. First off, it encourages people to go out and try to gain as much they can and step on other people if they have to. Even if the person does believe that they shouldn't harm others, the focus of the belief is to help themselves and they do just that even if it means hurting others, and then they'll rationalize their behavior. Another reason is that if we all think for ourselves, we won't help other people. This is awful because most of the world lives very poorly. If we all accepted this philosophy, the oppressed would get no help to get out of their situation, even if all they needed was a little helping hand. But if we accept my philosophy, helping others will be the main focus, and if we do that we will always be helping people and looking out for them, and it would make the world a better place. I gurantee that pretty much every single problem on this planet would not have occurred if we all had been thinking of other people when we made our decisions.
Recently, I've been pondering and I've come at a conclusion that makes me feel horrible. If my philosophy is true, every single person on Apolyton and probably 99% of the population of wealthy nations act very immorally. Now for someone on Apolyton, they have cars, clothes, many luxuries that people of poor nations couldn't dream of, and computers. They could sell everything they have, work a lot, and donate everything they earn to people in third world countries that are dying of malnutrition or lack of medicine. If they did this, they'd be saving lives. However, no one does this. So that means because of our inaction, people are dying. Children in India would beg people in the United States do to this, but we wouldn't because we're thinking of ourselves. Every person that dies of malnutrition or of a disease that could've been cured, that person could've been saved if we would've donated more money to third world countries. But we didn't. What we did (not giving them money which we would use to buy something useless, but they would've used for food and to save a life) caused that person to die.
So shouldn't every person here feel guilty?
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