General Reciprocity Specific Responsibility
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If you study all religions
it's very clear
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that we all believe that we should
treat our neighbor as ourselves.
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And in fact, scholars like Peter
Singer, who is not religious at all,
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argues for general reciprocity as
the foundation of all morality.
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And if you're going to translate
the idea of general reciprocity
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into ordinary language, it means
treating our neighbor as ourselves.
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So this is fundamental
to all cultures.
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We understand we need to treat
our neighbor as ourselves.
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But what does that mean in
a world of poverty and violence?
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Well the Beatitudes actually
unpack that in specific
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and concrete detail,
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so we understand
what that really means
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for us in a world of poverty
and violence
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If you study all religions it's very clear that we all believe that we should treat our neighbor as ourselves. And in fact, scholars like Peter Singer, who is not religious at all, argues for general reciprocity as the foundation of all morality. And if you're going to translate the idea of general reciprocity into ordinary language, it means treating our neighbor as ourselves. So this is fundamental to all cultures. We understand we need to treat our neighbor as ourselves. But what does that mean in a world of poverty and violence? Well the Beatitudes actually unpack that in specific and concrete detail, so we understand what that really means for us in a world of poverty and violence