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Formal ethics takes "Love your neighbor as yourself" to mean:
{ 1 } - Love your neighbor.
{ 2 } - Be a friend to everyone.
{ 3 } - Treat others as you treat yourself (or perhaps with the same concern that you have for yourself).
{ 4 } - Seek to do good and not harm to others -- and do this for their sake.
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Formal ethics takes "Love your neighbor as yourself" to mean:
{ 1 } - Love your neighbor.
{ 2 } - Be a friend to everyone.
{ 3 } - Treat others as you treat yourself (or perhaps with the same concern that you have for yourself).
{ 4 } - Seek to do good and not harm to others -- and do this for their sake.
Ima Hater doesn't love himself. He could love his neighbor as he loves himself (not at all) without loving his neighbor.
We need to combine "loving our neighbor as ourselves" with getting our understanding, imagination, and desires in proper working order.
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Formal ethics takes "Love your neighbor as yourself" to mean:
{ 1 } - Love your neighbor.
{ 2 } - Be a friend to everyone.
{ 3 } - Treat others as you treat yourself (or perhaps with the same concern that you have for yourself).
{ 4 } - Seek to do good and not harm to others -- and do this for their sake.
You can't literally be a friend to everyone. "Love your neighbor as yourself" is about how to treat our friends -- as well as how to treat strangers and acquaintances.
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Formal ethics takes "Love your neighbor as yourself" to mean:
{ 1 } - Love your neighbor.
{ 2 } - Be a friend to everyone.
{ 3 } - Treat others as you treat yourself (or perhaps with the same concern that you have for yourself).
{ 4 } - Seek to do good and not harm to others -- and do this for their sake.
This (like GR) models our treatment of others after our concern for ourselves. But its wording is hard to understand. Am I literally to treat others as I treat myself? Do I have to brush your teeth too? And is it possible or desirable to have the same concern for a stranger that I have for myself? It's more plausible to follow GR and take "loving X as myself" to mean "treating X only in ways that I'm willing to be treated in the same situation."
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Formal ethics takes "Love your neighbor as yourself" to mean:
{ 1 } - Love your neighbor.
{ 2 } - Be a friend to everyone.
{ 3 } - Treat others as you treat yourself (or perhaps with the same concern that you have for yourself).
{ 4 } - Seek to do good and not harm to others -- and do this for their sake.
Ima Hater tries to harm everyone, including himself. He could love his neighbor as he loves himself (not at all) while seeking to harm others.
We need to combine "loving our neighbor as ourselves" with getting our understanding, imagination, and desires in proper working order.
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