Any one else believe your life's reason is to give yourself for your loved ones?

Question

As a follow up question to "Would you sacrifice your life to save 100 strangers?" My answer was no... because I need my life to give it to my loved ones everyday, to the passing stranger, to my co-worker by doing everyday sacrifices instead of a big flash for 100 strangers.
Any one else can relate?

Answer 1

You are a selfish jerk. You think you are more important that 100 people and their families.

Sure, youd be there for your family, but they would know that you killed 100 people and caused suffering for their families.

Or, you could die and have your family live in the light of your glorious deed and set and example for them about humanity and at once show them how much THEY mean to YOU.

But yeah, whatever... the heck with the strangers. They are probably foreign anyhow.

Answer 2

I think you may fine that these decisions and are not decisions but acts based on instinct.
We may think we decide no turn our backs on the emergencies of strangers we come in contact with but the fact of it is that we automatically reach out to help. Sometimes we may even die in the process. This is not saying we care more for the stranger that for our family or our friend it simply says we are all members of the human family.

The Golden Rule is part of all of our inate personality.Even forigners and enemys have that instinctive quality. We will almost always do for others as we would wish them to do for us. Most of us are truly virtuous.
We give Blood. We donate organs. We keep our sidwalks clean and free of ice just so the old woman down the road does not break a hip.
That is why we have soldiers and policemen and firemen and medics and nurses and doctors. Why today we still have teachers who risk their lives in the classroom. I am not being facitious!
Almost everything we do is to protect our fellow man and the future generations..

Answer 3

Yes!! But the details of your question reveal that you are not clear as to whom this love extends to. If your "loved ones" are only your immediate family then you have a very limited "love life". Having been raised a Christian, but no longer believing most of their philosophy, I take seriously the admonition of both the old and New Testaments of their Bible to "Love your neighbor as yourself." This is not, I think, Impossible, as some say. If you strive to do this then all humans, family and strangers alike, are your loved ones.

I spent a good part of my life in the military and by so doing was willing to sacrifice my life for the entire population of the USA ( as do our current men in arms). But! I found during the "cold war" that this meant planning to take the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent foreign strangers by nuclear means. The ridiculousness of this soon became apparent to me. It was a tacit disavowal of the worth of many humans only because they were foreign and thus unknown and different. This soon led me to become disenchanted by all war especially that done in the name of a god. I thus equated the worth of foreign strangers to that of my own countrymen most of whom were strangers to me. My circle of loved ones had grown larger.

I can't relate to your limiting your loved ones to family, co-workers and an occaisional passing stranger. If your going to love, do it in a big way; LOVE ALL OF HUMANITY. It is really often much harder to love a close family member than an unknown stranger. You can even love your enemies if love is considered primarily an act of the will. An act of selfless good will toward an enemy usually serves the purpose of peace better than a selfish act of war.

So I extend my love (good will) to you and wish you good health, peace and prosperity.