Why would you care if...?

[JamesRam]

If someone lived or died, was in pain, what have you. Since that person is not you why care?
I don't so why would you?

[misundrstood]

children die and i care about that

[haysi06]

Because we are human JamesRam. Its called humanity. If you don't care about your fellow man you are devoid of human emotions. Sad.

take care x

[Eve]

If people didn't care we'd be a bit screwed where the medical profession, carers and such were concerned.

[pips1]

What an uncaring thing to say. What if it was your own mother?

[JamesRam]

But why do you care about said child if said child is.. not you?

[JamesRam]

Well Pips I'd need someone to buy me clothes, food, etc.
So I would have to say I would care but if I didn't need her to provide such things?
She could die for all I care since humans really are just tools to me.

[bigmamma]

So do you ONLY care about yourself ????

[pips1]

You're not Lung Cancer in another guise are you?

[skyep]

Human empathy! Hard to put in to words. See a child suffering in some third world country, you feel their sadness. Somebody dies you know, you feel the loss for the person and those who are left & for a relationship that has ceased!

[haysi06]

JamesRam, you are on a wind up aren't you?

Enjoy your evening. At least you are away from real people.

[JamesRam]

Who is Lung Cancer and I've seen starving children in many places and.. yeah I've seen someone mourning over a death of their child.

[haysi06]

oops I didnt mean that the people who have posted aren't real - just that it keeps the idiot away from actual contact with real people...erm...I know what I meanLOL

[pips1]

He/she was a very depressing person, full of woe, you just reminded me it.

[Jugglering]

James.... please be aware that at the other end of every cyber contact is a real human being... think about it !

[JamesRam]

I find it interesting that none of you have explained why you care all that much.

[cherrycherry]

the people above have indeed explained...amongst the features of compassion are humanity and empathy. If someone lacks these basic human emotions then they may be suffering from a pathological condition and may need to seek medical help.

[Octavius]

The ethics of care is a normative ethical theory - a theory about what makes actions right or wrong. While consequentialist and deontological ethical theories emphasize universal standards and impartiality, ethics of care emphasize the importance of relationships.

The justice view of morality focuses on doing the right thing even if it requires personal cost or sacrificing the interest of those to whom one is close. The care view would instead say that we can and should put the interests of those who are close to us above the interests of complete strangers, and that we should cultivate our natural capacity to care for others and ourselves.

You appear no to have reached the moral development stage of either. Your human development appears only to encompass the first stage:

1. Pre-conventional - Goal is individual survival
2. conventional Self sacrifice is goodness
3. Post-conventional Principle of nonviolence: do not hurt others or self

It seems you are behind the rest of the world in human development. We care because we want to and we can.

[Sasha13]

Freak...

[Sasha13]

(Not you Octavius!)

[cherrycherry]

are you self-referencing your questions by any chance, JamesRam? Are you suicidal?