Philosophical Questions: Help

[ysabetwordsmith]

People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

Is it more important to help yourself, help your family, help your society, or help the world?

The world -- because without a world to stand on, you will not have yourself, your family, or your society. At least not within your current life, which will be over.

Also, for idiots arguing that the environment conflicts with the economy -- no. The economy is a subset of the environment. No environment, no economy.

Comments

[greghousesgf]

I've never understood why anyone considers the environment a partisan issue at all; whether you're a liberal or a conservative we all have to live on the same planet and breathe the same air and drink the same water!

[see_also_friend]

It depends on your priorities and resources.

Yes, we need the world to not be completely destroyed in order to have a family and society. But if you can't fix the world, you might need to prioritize your family or a small corner of society. Or you might have to betray your society to protect your family, or your family to protect your society.

Plus there's the practical bit that for any people foregoing one's friends/relatives causes /social/ difficulties, as betrayal of close confidants is so against standard human mental programming.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Either local-only or wide-only answers are a problem, because things are so interconnected. But nobody is an endless well, taking care of others and the world to the exclusion of taking care of yourself limits how much you can do rather effectively.