Is it an inescapable truth that all anyone can ever care about is himself?

Question

Explain.

Answer 1

Yes, that is true... but then when you come to know the unified nature of life at it's basis, you find that your life is everyone Else's life as well. So when you love yourself, you are loving everyone else too.

So there is nothing wrong with it. Just go ahead and care for yourself.... and find this universal self in the "I AM." Chs. 21-22

Answer 2

Far from the truth. Absolutely not true at all.

Every single human being has very deeply rooted self preservation instincts. But that does not equate to the caring only of self premise on your question.

A man is basically altruistic to the point that he will be willing to give up his possessions, wealth, name, reputation, even his life, for country, belief system, a loved one, in pursuit of a goal, and other weird things a man will lay down his life for.

Answer 3

Well if you belive in the bible, Christ died for all of humanities sin.

And I remeber a news story reciently that some homeless guy jumped down on the subway tracks to save a person about to be hit by a subway car in N.Y

I would say your question isn't accurate...It happens more then you think its just now that news worthy.

But I'm sure a majority of the population only cares about themselves.

Answer 4

In the final analysis, yes. However, this does not exclude the possibility of altruism or self-sacrifice at a lower analytical level. Push behavioural analysis to the ultimate, though, and you find the self as the prime motive force.

Answer 5

i think it depends on your position in life....being in a developed coutnry...that IS an inescapable truth....but only because you live in a bubble....believe it or not there is another reality out there and it is beyond those world vision programs you watch on tv...it is the reality of the less wealthy people out there...who really can only think of their family b4 themselves.... because they are the sole provider and other lives depend on them... when you are put in that position...you become forced to think of others b4 yourself...but as for ourselves in north america or europe or other developed coutnries it is inescapable....because everyone is so power, drug, money, sex, vanity, scandal driven ...the focus is always going to be on themselves and whether or not they are getting enough flattery that they need....it will always be about themselves because the person they know best IS themselves...they know their own feelings so they strive to meet satisfaction doing what ever they can to meet it and rarely thinking of concequences or OTHER feelings....because ultimately... it is their own they are worried about and not others....they live with and in themselves...there fore "they are the only ones that exist in the world" = self centred ppl

Answer 6

If you identify with the little learned ego. Until you become aware of OBSERVING its thoughts and feelings and their source in subconsciously programmed beliefs, you will be at the mercy of your early limited little world and NEVER return to authentic being, reuniting with what you are deadly serious about and letting reality support/mirror that purpose.

Answer 7

I don't see how it's possible to be married and not care about your spouse, or be a parent and not care about your children. It is in our nature that we are social animals, and caring for others is an important component in forming social and familial bonds.