Defend this claim: Human beings should be greatly invested in the well-being of other human beings.
Something that people like to say helps humans define their "humanity" is their inherent nature to feel sympathy for each other. In society, when someone loses that and does things without thinking about the effect of others aka shooting other people, they are really really REALLY not accepted. Humans are social creatures. It is in our nature to care about each other.
There is also this societally constructed idea of "goodness". And contained within that is the idea of selflessness. It is widely thought that by helping others we ourselves can reach a transcendent plane of living by being able to move out of instinctual self preservation and be invested in not just ourselves but others as well.
When it comes down to. It's actually really hard to defend that idea not on a purely emotional or religious level. What about us inherently says that we need to care for others....?
