Philosophical Question: Why should I care about you?

Question

Very Good Answer TR,

it's hard to get good quality answers that stay in topic.

Answer 1

To help the people in the world be in a better place within their mind.  & probably to help you too.    For every positve actions creats a positive reaction within your life.

Answer 2

Because you belong to the human race and spiritually speaking we all are one like a giant tree and we all are its branches we can't survive without supporting each other. It's as simple as that.

Answer 3

You do not have to CARE about ME as a person, but if you treat me LIKE you yourself would LIKE to BE treated, chances are it will happen and we both will be happy.

Answer 4

what you give

you get back

Answer 5

You can't. You don't even know me. And if you say you can care about someone you don't know, you're just kidding yourself.

Answer 6

You don't.

Neither should I care about you.

Answer 7

"No man is an island,

entire of itself..."

Caring for the humanity in others & in yourself is part of what being human is. Discounting that is a measure of a lack of mature care for yourself as well.

Answer 8

Well, if you care about people, they, in turn, will care about you. In theory.

Answer 9

I didn't tell anybody to care about me and so never worry friend, I wouldn't ask you to.

I have myself to care for me. That is simply I want it to be.

Answer 10

Nature:

You are born, presumably to have children.  Your job is to make them more sucessful than you.  To do this, you also have to give them an arena for sucess.  A better world for a better person includes other people.  If you bring others "up" you are making a better world for your offspring, and all is better.  Then you die, knowing that your children will be better off than you, and their children will be better off yet, and so and so on, until there is harmony on earth.

Answer 11

It's not an either-or proposition; there are multiple levels of caring.  There are the people who you care so much for that you'd gladly sacrifice your own life--then there are those who you'd be willing to show common courtesy but little more.

A minimal degree of concern is essential for a number of reasons.

1)  "No man is an island unto himself"--yes, I see that I'm not the first to cite it, but let me be specific.  We are all linked as biological organisms in this ecosystem.  If I do not care enough to try to ensure that you (and everyone) has proper nutrition and health care, then I increase the odds of you falling ill.  Every sick person creates a breeding ground for pathogens that could then infect me.  There is no such thing as personal health.

2)  "A rising tide lifts all boats."  We in the USA are currently seeing the real consequences of a prevailing economic theory that cooperation and public regulation are invariably bad, while cut-throat competition and profit-at-any-cost are invariably good.  It's a perversion of what Adam Smith and other free-market economists originally proposed.  Unless I care enough about you to put into place systems that ensure fair play, equal opportunity, and reasonable distribution of limited resources for the common good, then I wind up suffering from the inevitable economic downturn.  In essence, it is better to be a poor person in the most prosperous economy of all time, than it is to be the richest person at the cost of dragging the economy down into the stone age.

3)  Perhaps I respond by not caring about you either.  If I am utterly without concern for you, and it occurs to me that injuring or killing you is to my advantage (or vice versa) then we are not enjoying that basic level of human security to which we aspire.  Note that many of the rebel groups in Africa are currently populated by men who clearly do NOT care about others in general; that's the sort of society you risk.

4)  Perhaps you have a conscience?

Hey--interesting question, man!

Answer 12

Because we are all connected.  If we could go back through the generations, we'd find all of us have common ancestors.

That makes us all relatives.

Answer 13

Don't care.

Answer 14

we should care for one another because we as humans in the bigger picture arent individuals, we are a unity. if i dont help you when youre down then who is supposed to help me.

you dont have to help anyone but i guess this is the point where you get what you give.

we dont have to help, we could just live our lives thinking about ourselves, the only problem with that is that we dont have the answers for everything and sometimes(actually most of the time) we need others to give us advice, give us a hand, or just say that its going to be alright.